My degree is in mathematics. Look, I could get in a lot of trouble for talking about this, but they’ve been lying to you
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2025
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I don’t even see numbers anymore, only sets of various cardinalities.
Dang. This guy foundations of mathematics.
As an integer larger than 10, this post is extremely offensive. Please don't lump me in with complex, irrational, and imaginary numbers. We integers have our own finite groups closed under multiplication, sequences, and properties, not all of which are shared by other, less important, less useful numbers.
- statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
Zero fucks given
To infinity and beyond!
Checkmate, atheists!
Yes, hello. I'm here representing the Checkmate Atheists. Why was I summoned?
I call fake, anyone who thinks like this died in a roof collapsing on them while they slept.
Edit: because they suck at building a house i mean, I guess they could have bought a house but nobody sells houses for an amount you can count with your FINGERS.
uh, i can count to a billion on my fingers.
Powers of two per knuckle? I'm curious what the method is.
nah just sign language
Not sure how I would keep track of powers of two with my fingers but base 6 or, my current favorite, base 13 counting is easy enough to keep track.
In principle you use hands as digits, one hand representing ones the other "tens". With base 6 you count with fingers normally up to 5 and then 6 is represented on another hand. This let's you count to 35.
Base 13 works by counting bones in your digits using your thumb. Like touching finger segment and that representing a number. So one hand can count up to 12 and then 13 is marked in the same manner on the other hand. This allows to count up to 168 (13 * 13 - 1).
Utilizing all fingers in a binary manner could give 30 bit number (15 finger bones on each hand), but I have no idea how to then keep track of the number using your hands.
Powers of 2 is just counting in binary, finger up is a 1 and down is a 0 so highest you can count all the numbers up to and including is 1111111111 in binary or 1023 base 10
Ok, yeah, a 10 bit number seems doable
I think you could relatively easily go trinary, where a finger is either down, bent, or up. That would get you to 59048
What if I don't wanna get shipped to El Salvador for throwing up gang signs?
Idk don't math debate in public?
True!
I'm going to say something controversial. You could change your system to base 10, by simply stopping after 9 and using the other hand as the "tens".
This could be easier to see at a glance what number you are holding, it should become the industry standard
That's already that I have with base 13, although, that does have more mental math.
Well, that's because you're AI-generated. Beep beep boop.
Ai can generate hands with a billion fingers, but it can't count so i guess they're not likely ai after all.
It says to guess for numbers higher than 10. It's a tool!
It actually specified for when going above numbers counted by fingers which for most people should be 2^9 if they don't want to break their fingers.
The original - and still the best.