10 fingers and 10 toes

Computing in that model, please don't show me 132. Thanks. ;-)

Yes, I think, 4 and 132 are the main reasons why we don't count binary with our fingers :-) (and 136, of course)

Brilliant, 132 is my new code for Trump beep. =)

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update

Sigh there they go, my visa rights... ;)

A simple technique I picked up somewhere permits counting to 99 on the hands -- left hand is the tens digit, right hand is the units digit, and the thumb counts for 5 fingers.

This is my system too. It also works very well for tallying two different counts that occur simultaneously, if they're in the range of 0-9.

Or in a pinch, -9-+9 or 0-19, using memory (short term) or hand inversion (long terms storage) for the extra bit.

While others pointed to hexagesimal my first idea was vigesimal, a system which left traces in many European languages.

(To those who complain now French counting be to complicated, try Danish ... ;)

While others pointed to hexagesimal my first idea was vigesimal

Pfft. What a waste of good knuckles and fingers. Down with vigesimal. Long live hexagesimal!

Let's see, the hand can count to 12, making 60 with both hands. Or is that 144? Adding both feet, would be 1500, or 3600. Or, perhaps for the inhumanly dexterous, 20,736.

Let's see, the hand can count to 12

Yeah. Decimal => 5, Sexagesimal => 12, Binary => 31; five bits. 4 ^ 128...

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

Aaaah! Wikipedia has let me astray.

Worthy of note though: Fingered Sexagesimal has no obscene geustures associated with it. Does that count for anything? :)

Wow, I learn something new everyday. I never even thought about Sexagesimal before. :-)

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