Thought of this in the shower this morning, if anyone has an answer I’d be very interested!

  • major_third@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yep. Your four fingers have three knuckles each. You count along them with your thumb. Then each count of 12 is counted with an extended finger on your other hand. Extend all five fingers and you have 60.

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      1 year ago

      I accidentally came upon this same system messing around during long periods of boredom, and now I do all my counting this way. I also include the base joint of each finger so I can count 4 per digit

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