On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Ben Stern wrote:
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 05:16:21PM +0000, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
[1] Using your fingers as bits is cheating. Counting on fingers is in base
1.
You know better than that, Alexey. :-) 1 is the natural base - you can't
use it as an artihmetic (or multiplicative) base...
Sure you can, it's easy. 11 * 11 = 1111, 11 * 111 = 111111, etc.
1 10 100? Doesn't work. You still have a degree of freedom.
I'm not sure what you mean here.
I imagine that was a typo for base 10, which is a typical base for counting
on fingers.
No, I mean base 1, which lets you count up to 10 on 10 fingers.
Alexey
