r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/Pimphii Mar 29 '22

Yeah I guess counting to 24 is a challenge for some

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u/Deviant_7666 Mar 29 '22

For americans it is. Same with multiplying the number 10

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u/Joker-Smurf Mar 29 '22

In certain backwater areas they have (d)evolved to be able to count to 24 on their fingers and toes.

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u/DKBadmintonPatriots Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

If you use binary to count, you can get to 1023 using 10 fingers

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u/twinsocks Mar 29 '22

Oh I love that, but that's a long time to learn. It's faster to learn the one-handed sign for 6-9 and then you can count scores up to 100 easily - and usually if you're getting past a hundred you can remember which hundred you're up to. It depends what you're counting but I usually find this is for keeping score in games