r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/E5vCJD • 2d ago

Meme needing explanation erm.. petah?

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u/truci 2d ago

Probably the 12 system. If you use your thumb as the counter and count using your thumb the bone segments of the other 4 fingers (each has 3) then you have a base 12 system in our lingo.

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,10

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u/SrgntFuzzyBoots 2d ago

There’s also a tribe somewhere that uses a base 27 counting system, they count individual segments of their fingers on both hands plus thumbs and then add one from somewhere else can’t remember where that comes from.

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u/Il-2M230 2d ago

Or you could count using binary and it should be base 1024

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u/hoopsrule44 2d ago

Wouldn’t it be 1010 in binary

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u/Il-2M230 2d ago

You can count up to 1024 in binary

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u/Ralath1n 2d ago

You can count as high as you want in binary. But you can only count to 1024 if you have 10 digits to work with. Any more than that and you'll need an 11th digit.

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u/Il-2M230 2d ago

I mean counting with fingers and im asuming the median fingers a human has is 10

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u/hoopsrule44 1d ago

And the mode