POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Earth science education : Re: Earth science education Server Time
6 Oct 2024 08:24:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Earth science education  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 16 Mar 2015 10:33:49
Message: <5506e9cd$1@news.povray.org>
Le 16/03/2015 15:22, Stephen a écrit :
> On 16/03/2015 13:41, scott wrote:
>>>> Next, you can teach him to count to 29 without taking off his socks.
>>>> ;-)
>>>
>>> You can count up to 1023 using only your fingers.  Although, it takes a
>>> little bit of dexterity.
>>
>> If you're really good you can manage up to 59048...
>>
> 
> It is too cumbersome counting in binary. If you use base five, it is
> easy. Almost as if your fingers were made for it. ;-)
> You can add and subtract for small values of yes.
> 
> 
I have enough problems counting to 143 with both hands.

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