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[–] milkisklim@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

You can get to 1023 with binary fingers, assuming you have all your fingers.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh yeah you're right, I was just thinking of 2^9

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow. I like that a lot. Have you done that or is this just a thought?

[–] milkisklim@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Ive tried but I don't really have a use case in my day to day life beyond counting to 30 after that I'd rather keep paper records so I don't lose count.

Anyways, here the Wikipedia article about it.