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newgameplus · 4645 days ago · link · · parent · post: AskHubski: What are the top ten most positively influential events in human history?
You can use your hands to easily count up to 144 in base-12 (or 120 depending on how you look at it ^__^).
Edit: For continuity, I originally posted 60.
I've won a TON of money in bars (and not beaten up once!) with this question.
You can count to 144 easily using your hands - thus the importance of "gross" in every society. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk0hO4oDnzo There are several ways to do this sort of counting. I like this guys, but that is not actually how it is done in most places. Use your power wisely, always for good, never for evil. -XC
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JakobVirgil · 4645 days ago · link ·
what if you count the meta-carpals that would give you base 20 and would let you count to 400.
edit: I can not believe I said tarsals [embarrassed]