How to count to 1000 on two hands

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3Blue1Brown

3Blue1Brown

Күн бұрын

Typically when we think of counting on two hands, we count up to 10, but fingers can contain much more information than that! This video shows how to think about counting in binary.

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@stuffstuff6146
@stuffstuff6146 8 жыл бұрын
Teacher: What's 2+2? Me: *Flips teacher off*
@n484l3iehugtil
@n484l3iehugtil 7 жыл бұрын
(8 years later) Com Science Teacher: How many different states can a byte represent? Me: *Flips teacher off*
@naheelazawy
@naheelazawy 7 жыл бұрын
Billy Ma-gusta you mean on an ascii char right?
@xTheUnderscorex
@xTheUnderscorex 7 жыл бұрын
(20 years later, in a career in politics) Journalist: Can you explain your position on the issue? Me: Flip-flops on issue
@GamiWorks69
@GamiWorks69 6 жыл бұрын
Two plus two is four *Flips them off* Minus one, thats three *Puts an 'L' on your forehead*
@KineticManiac
@KineticManiac 4 жыл бұрын
@@n484l3iehugtil Except that the left middle finger is 128, not 256.
@jfb-
@jfb- 8 жыл бұрын
If you have infinitely many fingers, you can count to -1.
@thantosqrow9965
@thantosqrow9965 8 жыл бұрын
How does that work?
@TheiLame
@TheiLame 8 жыл бұрын
+jfb-1337 yeah, how ? O.O
@mdmobashshir432
@mdmobashshir432 8 жыл бұрын
+jfb-1337 This comment is the best comment I have seen ever!!!!!!! times infinity.
@TheiLame
@TheiLame 8 жыл бұрын
Mobashshir Feroz I dont get it but i want to understand..
@mdmobashshir432
@mdmobashshir432 8 жыл бұрын
Limit of the infinite sum of powers of 2 converge to -1.
@darkmage35
@darkmage35 7 жыл бұрын
You can count to 242 on one hand and 59048 on two hands if you use the ability to only partially extend a finger and count in ternary. A bit tricky at times, but it works.
@TheWagonroast
@TheWagonroast Жыл бұрын
I thought about that, then i realized that you can flip someone off with that.
@anepicchip
@anepicchip Жыл бұрын
Aré You using trinary?
@one_logic
@one_logic 6 күн бұрын
@@TheWagonroastyou can do that either way, even with binary
@one_logic
@one_logic 6 күн бұрын
@@anepicchipyes
@MrBeiragua
@MrBeiragua 9 жыл бұрын
There are 10 types of people. Those who get this video, and those who don't.
@3blue1brown
@3blue1brown 9 жыл бұрын
+Mosco Monster Don't forget the 10rd category of people who suggested counting to 59,048 in ternary!
@MrBeiragua
@MrBeiragua 9 жыл бұрын
3Blue1Brown New objective: be one of these 10rds!
@storn7024
@storn7024 9 жыл бұрын
+CogitoErgoCogitoSum You could count in decimal with your fingers like you do in binary. You would be able to count up to 100 000 with one hand! But you would need to be able to bend each finger in 10 different ways... I can bend each finger in 4 ways only... Also, counting each finger as 1 is useful for presenting information to other people. They can count how many fingers you are holding up, but it would be hard to tell which one of the 100 000 combinations you are using in a proper decimal system.
@MegaKnoedl
@MegaKnoedl 8 жыл бұрын
+Mosco Monster And those who didn`t expect a base 3 joke
@bernardberari4250
@bernardberari4250 8 жыл бұрын
+Kingdom of Stornia - Development I can bend them in 10 ways, it's difficult but you can, i'm not sure how to describe it though. ( i am not a contortionist, anyone should be able to do this)
@NoriMori1992
@NoriMori1992 5 жыл бұрын
The great thing about finger-counting is, once the process becomes automatic, you don't even need to count. You can just let your fingers go, and at any given point you can stop and know exactly how far you got.
@soniczdawun1
@soniczdawun1 9 жыл бұрын
And now "A big 132 to you" has become an insanely obscure insult.
@il-bluemon-li9138
@il-bluemon-li9138 9 жыл бұрын
lol
@DanielDTUBWeinberger
@DanielDTUBWeinberger 9 жыл бұрын
+Guy Edwards to people who count fingers in binary.... yes .-.
@azureorbit
@azureorbit 9 жыл бұрын
+Daniel Weinberger (DTUB) that is one of the few numbers I have bothered to memorize. Along with four. But 132 is double the fun
@il-bluemon-li9138
@il-bluemon-li9138 9 жыл бұрын
A big 513 to you
@sarahludy1716
@sarahludy1716 9 жыл бұрын
+Guy Edwards I feel so stupid because I don't understand that insult
@braddye4983
@braddye4983 4 жыл бұрын
Mr. Sakurai is the reason I’m here.
@alonzozavala4534
@alonzozavala4534 4 жыл бұрын
YOOO SAME😭
@SupahSmashBrotha96
@SupahSmashBrotha96 4 жыл бұрын
Same, dude
@ShadowKryzis
@ShadowKryzis 4 жыл бұрын
He's going to be the reason why this video will get crazy amounts of views.
@founderofthenewworld1838
@founderofthenewworld1838 4 жыл бұрын
Same
@squigglypop8748
@squigglypop8748 4 жыл бұрын
LMAOOO SAME
@pedrobntto
@pedrobntto 8 жыл бұрын
one time I asked someone how much was 2 + 2 and I was given the finger as answer. In fact, that actualy was correct!!
@xhitiz22
@xhitiz22 6 жыл бұрын
Was it index one? Genuinely asking
@Kiros37100
@Kiros37100 6 жыл бұрын
No, it was not the index one...
@MeiZhang-q5k
@MeiZhang-q5k 6 жыл бұрын
66+66
@YoungMesrine
@YoungMesrine 5 жыл бұрын
😂😂 yeah the middle finger = 4
@studentlife6842
@studentlife6842 2 жыл бұрын
i dont understand how 32 + 32 =1023, I can only count till 64 😕
@eldermartins130
@eldermartins130 4 жыл бұрын
2:27 Me: look at my toes Toes: You won't do it, will you?
@DanielHarveyDyer
@DanielHarveyDyer 6 жыл бұрын
I learned this when I was a kid, and practiced it to the point where I could cycle through the numbers with either hand almost without thinking. Initially just as a novelty, but in adult life I have actually come across a lot of situations where it is really useful to be able to store 5-bit numbers physically without pen and paper: Counting elapsed times that run over midnight (or midday if you use a 12 hour clock) by reciting the names of the hours "8 o'clock, 9 o'clock ... 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock" while counting the hours with a hand. Recalling all the elements of a set and counting the elements that meet some criteria (like remembering who you invited to your birthday party and counting if they are vegetarian or if they don't drink alcohol).
@ohno5559
@ohno5559 5 жыл бұрын
This is the opposite of clickbait: 2.3% more content than the title said
@arcynic5404
@arcynic5404 2 жыл бұрын
This comment is genius
@midston5843
@midston5843 4 жыл бұрын
0:10 So that's why 4 is unlucky in Japan.
@pranavsingla5902
@pranavsingla5902 4 жыл бұрын
Shineeee...!
@0123葉毓哲
@0123葉毓哲 4 жыл бұрын
Also in Taiwan
@MSKofAlexandria
@MSKofAlexandria 7 ай бұрын
Real reason is that 4 sounds the same as the word "death". And yes, I understand this comment is a joke, but there are some people who dont understand that.
@rezzpls3964
@rezzpls3964 5 жыл бұрын
*Flips you off* “Sorry I was just counting to 4.”
@dragonsdream4236
@dragonsdream4236 5 жыл бұрын
I like to count to 132
@starwarsjk99
@starwarsjk99 4 жыл бұрын
@@dragonsdream4236 🖕🖕
@memerboi69.0
@memerboi69.0 3 жыл бұрын
*grows an extra hand* time to count to 4228
@Holobrine
@Holobrine 9 жыл бұрын
Just don't stop at number 4!
@AlmightyMatthew
@AlmightyMatthew 9 жыл бұрын
+Holobrine 4 you (jk if you get it)
@jfb-
@jfb- 8 жыл бұрын
+Holobrine So... 24?
@AlmightyMatthew
@AlmightyMatthew 8 жыл бұрын
+jfb-1337 middle finger equals to...?
@jfb-
@jfb- 8 жыл бұрын
You said 4!, which is 4 factorial =24, not 4.
@ainsleyfan6926
@ainsleyfan6926 8 жыл бұрын
+Holobrine 5 too
@sofiarosati9368
@sofiarosati9368 8 жыл бұрын
A nice property is that if you want to multiply a number by two you simply cycle the fingers position to the left by one, so for exmple 7*2=14 => 111 becomes 1110. More generally if you multiply a number by a power n of two you cycle to the left n times: 3*64=3*2^6=192 => 11 becomes 11000000. (It's obvious, but it's nice to see it so clearly on my fingers!)
@Kino-Imsureq
@Kino-Imsureq 6 жыл бұрын
yep, it's obvious. when we multiply by 2 in binary, we just shift 1 place higher, because every place value is just double the one below it. And you can see if i multiply for example 100 by 2, you get 1100100 * 10, which is 11001000. ya
@RobertShane
@RobertShane 7 жыл бұрын
2:12 69 is pretty accurate. Pause the video and use "" on your keyboard to skip single frames.
@tomcat1184
@tomcat1184 3 жыл бұрын
exactly
@StriderZessei
@StriderZessei 4 жыл бұрын
Masahiro Sakurai: I'm about to launch this man's whole career.
@zionj104
@zionj104 4 жыл бұрын
pretty sure it was already fine
@casperdewith
@casperdewith 2 жыл бұрын
Wholesome twist.
@Bit-while_going
@Bit-while_going 4 жыл бұрын
Hand: let's do eleven! Pinky: Imma do my own thing.
@stotab8700
@stotab8700 4 жыл бұрын
who's here after the Smash direct?
@SupahSmashBrotha96
@SupahSmashBrotha96 4 жыл бұрын
Me lol
@FindingCow
@FindingCow 4 жыл бұрын
Me haha
@founderofthenewworld1838
@founderofthenewworld1838 4 жыл бұрын
Me
@dodger9385
@dodger9385 4 жыл бұрын
Just trying to learn how to make a shadow clone
@bungus87
@bungus87 9 жыл бұрын
So 420 is your middle finger up on the right hand, and the shocker on your left
@ptyamin6976
@ptyamin6976 9 жыл бұрын
+Doctor Smeggman you piece of XD
@tilnation14
@tilnation14 8 жыл бұрын
+Doctor Smeggman Alternatively; 154
@Kino-Imsureq
@Kino-Imsureq 6 жыл бұрын
0110100100 :1
@steverman2312
@steverman2312 6 жыл бұрын
Doctor Smeggman HA
@jamesdavis2027
@jamesdavis2027 6 жыл бұрын
this has 69 likes
@pranamd1
@pranamd1 7 жыл бұрын
You can actually count to any number n^10-1, provided you can hold each finger in n distinct positions. For n=3, a finger down is a "0", a finger up just to the knuckle is "1", and a finger all the way up is a "2". You could count all the way up to either 59048 or RSI that way, whichever comes first.
@mememanfresh
@mememanfresh 2 жыл бұрын
that wouldnt be binary then
@kennymiller5837
@kennymiller5837 2 жыл бұрын
@@mememanfresh that's not the point? But also you're wrong
@mememanfresh
@mememanfresh 2 жыл бұрын
@@kennymiller5837 yeah its ternary
@AlmightyMatthew
@AlmightyMatthew 9 жыл бұрын
wow my hands arent nearly as dexterous. it gets hard after 8 cause my ring finger doesnt want to stay up
@justinwhite2725
@justinwhite2725 6 жыл бұрын
I do this on a table (or my thigh) the fingers touching the table are 'active' less dexterity required
@HanYang2023
@HanYang2023 9 жыл бұрын
im pretty sure one of these gotta be a gang sign~
@TheResidentSkeptic
@TheResidentSkeptic 9 жыл бұрын
2:16 420
@XCoreProduction
@XCoreProduction 9 жыл бұрын
+Han Yang 0:10 4
@TheResidentSkeptic
@TheResidentSkeptic 9 жыл бұрын
XCoreProduction lol
@sagiksp4979
@sagiksp4979 9 жыл бұрын
132 :P
@xenontesla122
@xenontesla122 8 жыл бұрын
+Han Yang In a way, one of them HAS to be. Since every combination of straight and curled finger is represented.
@NoriMori1992
@NoriMori1992 5 жыл бұрын
While it doesn't use the same principle, I very much enjoy the Chisanbop finger-counting method, which I learned not too long ago. It gets you to 99, and it's very easy to learn. I use it to count seconds during 20-second screen breaks, without having to look at the screen. The tactile element (tapping) is nice, because it makes it easy to keep track of where you are without looking. It's also easy to increment rhythmically (e.g. every second), since it's like tapping a beat. I often find that I manage to get to 20 in almost exactly 20 seconds.
@insainsin
@insainsin 8 жыл бұрын
I thought of this a long time ago, and I just happened to see your video. I instantly new what you were doing.
@zacchon
@zacchon 8 жыл бұрын
Feel ya, it's always funny to invent stuff independently.
@zacchon
@zacchon 8 жыл бұрын
I'm left-handed, so I do this mirrored. I think I have spread that to a few friends of mine, too.
@marvellesaulsberry
@marvellesaulsberry 4 жыл бұрын
So this gonna be the most awkward search topic in trending for the week #ThankYouSakurai
@Jimpozcan
@Jimpozcan 9 жыл бұрын
You're going right to left on both hands. Some might find it easier to go thumb to pinky on both hands.
@korayacar1444
@korayacar1444 6 жыл бұрын
jimpozcaner That‘s what I do when counting with them and I must say, it‘s pretty good if you know how to hold your hands up right. Do not ever count with them sideways, it is very uneasy to the eyes. Instead, hold them up vertically as if you were holding two parallel vertical poles, and half raise your fingers instead of fully doing it. Let one hand carry over to the other, with the thumbs being the incremental starting points for both hands. You won‘t be flipping people off, it‘s very easy to read for all involved, and even has this feel of being a two-digit number being read instead of a 10-digit one.
@massimocole9689
@massimocole9689 Ай бұрын
@@korayacar1444 But it is a 10 digit number, 10 digits of binary. Looking at it edge on would make it harder to read as such.
@gwenturo9550
@gwenturo9550 3 ай бұрын
I'm going back and watching some of 3b1b's old videos... I can't believe I've never thought of doing binary counting with my hands! Because its directly analogous to reading bits, you really dont even have to keep track of what number you're on in your head. Just keep your fingers moving until you've counted everything you're counting and then you can read the result. Genius!
@Blueaspen391
@Blueaspen391 8 жыл бұрын
And,surprise, you can also count up to 9999 with just one thumb. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_counter
@thatoneguy9582
@thatoneguy9582 6 жыл бұрын
blueaspen God dammit
@yali_shanda
@yali_shanda 8 жыл бұрын
Now I have to explain to people that I'm actually showing them the number 132...
@TheScabbage
@TheScabbage 8 жыл бұрын
I like 132 the most.
@pomtubes1205
@pomtubes1205 8 жыл бұрын
me 2
@Ed-quadF
@Ed-quadF 7 жыл бұрын
561 is gnarly and rad.
@want-diversecontent3887
@want-diversecontent3887 7 жыл бұрын
M 42 .
@dragonsdream4236
@dragonsdream4236 5 жыл бұрын
Shoot people down with 771
@thenewtonium3521
@thenewtonium3521 7 жыл бұрын
Although only counting to 2^8 -1 = 255 is more practical since moving your little and ring fingers separately is quite difficult for a lot of people.
@trendygaming795
@trendygaming795 Жыл бұрын
Just don't count 4
@alonzozavala4534
@alonzozavala4534 4 жыл бұрын
Anyone here after the byleth Nintendo direct 😗 I love sakurai sm
@ThomasGiles
@ThomasGiles 8 жыл бұрын
Awesome! The best thing was the strength in your fingers to be able to hold the pinky and ring fingers in different positions! ^^
@hikaru-live
@hikaru-live 8 жыл бұрын
I still remember the time our team, a bunch of programmers, used hand gestures not unlike this (we used 4 fingers each hand instead of 5,by disregarding ring finger consistently) to gesture over a few tens of bytes of data. Each gesture encodes exactly one byte of data.
@vystorm
@vystorm 2 жыл бұрын
I'll give ya the ring finger is the hardest to do by far
@wolfbd5950
@wolfbd5950 6 жыл бұрын
As a low brass player in a symphony orchestra, I routinely need to count hundreds of bars of rests at a time. I actually taught myself this counting method, with the variation that the pointer finger is one, middle is two, and thumb is 16 (it's a more natural movement that way). There is the added bonus that most musical phrases are in powers of two (think of 8-bar or 16-bar phrases), so the big flips usually line up with a rehearsal mark. No more of this "am I at 30 or 35?" malarky.
@theminecraftfriends1392
@theminecraftfriends1392 8 жыл бұрын
I got this the first time I watched it and can't stop doing it because it is so fun!
@mekaindo
@mekaindo 7 ай бұрын
Be doing 4 to everyone arent you
@confuseddable
@confuseddable Жыл бұрын
Alright class, whats 3+1? The whole class:✌️😀✌️ *You:* 🖕😀
@alfonshomac
@alfonshomac 8 жыл бұрын
nice edge detection script
@keyboardmannow
@keyboardmannow 5 жыл бұрын
thx
@randombrownguy1519
@randombrownguy1519 5 жыл бұрын
can't you do that in 1 line in openCV?
@sethdon1100
@sethdon1100 3 жыл бұрын
Teacher: what’s 11*12? Student: *Double Flip Teacher*
@noblestark1231
@noblestark1231 9 жыл бұрын
If you set 0 = finger down, 1 = finger half way, 2 = finger up (base 3) you can count all the way to 3^10 -1 :)
@portal6347
@portal6347 6 жыл бұрын
Noble Stark 59048
@Kino-Imsureq
@Kino-Imsureq 6 жыл бұрын
and if you can move your hairs in your head in 100 ways then you can almost count to 1.0e400 xD aka googol^4 lol xDDD
@Astralinksz
@Astralinksz 4 жыл бұрын
I don't know why, but it's so satisfying to see this hand counting
@Loporrr
@Loporrr 8 жыл бұрын
it's hard to use the ring finger alone, lol
@korayacar1444
@korayacar1444 6 жыл бұрын
Paulo José Or play a piano and train that ring finger in the process.
@atouloupas
@atouloupas 6 жыл бұрын
For everyone who wants to know what's the name of the piece playing in the background, it's Gymnopédie No.3 by Erik Satie.
@Sophia-hs7et
@Sophia-hs7et 4 жыл бұрын
1:48 I realize this is a math channel, not an English channel, but... c'mon... It's your*
@hrishikeshrprasad3847
@hrishikeshrprasad3847 3 жыл бұрын
Lol
@teimopielinen8418
@teimopielinen8418 4 жыл бұрын
If you want to count in binary, just count the decimal numbers that contain only 0s and 1s in order: 0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000 and so on...
@asrielsharikov
@asrielsharikov 4 жыл бұрын
Canal Ponto em Comum me trouxe aqui! ksksksk
@Algorithm_God_Cult
@Algorithm_God_Cult 4 жыл бұрын
"Dossiê do Felipe" brabo 👍
@playhardzinho1137
@playhardzinho1137 4 жыл бұрын
kk
@komunist_senku
@komunist_senku 4 жыл бұрын
@@Algorithm_God_Cult vdd
@PRYMA9
@PRYMA9 4 жыл бұрын
No caso, isso apareceu na minha timeline depois de eu ter visto o vídeo do ponto em comum kkkk
@yodavanckart
@yodavanckart 4 жыл бұрын
Kkkk
@hypercuriosity9828
@hypercuriosity9828 6 жыл бұрын
Teacher: What is 2 squared.. Me: Show the hand......
@ian9050
@ian9050 4 жыл бұрын
if you came here from Sakurai, he used "palm" as zero, which is the reverse of what this video shows. This video use "fist" as zero. Although the concept is the same but reversed.
@Aweso1974
@Aweso1974 4 жыл бұрын
And that’s why Sakurai’s fingers were also reversed from what they should have been. 17 is thumb and pinky out, everything else in. Samurai did index, middle, and ring out, the other two in. It’s just the reverse operation
@Kytseo
@Kytseo 4 жыл бұрын
@@Aweso1974 Plus, it was an all ages stream, and he'd be in hot water when he got to four with the fist method.
@cstarr3240
@cstarr3240 8 жыл бұрын
I think you could use your segments on four of your fingers to count higher. The first segment on your index would be one, the last would represent 3. 4 would be the first segment on your middle finger, 16 on your ring, 64 on your little finger. Tips of all fingers on one hand would be 255 and 6560 on both hands. Hooray for alternative forms of counting on your hands! I also like counting segments for base 12, with ones column on the right segments and dozens colum on the left segments.
@filmdevil123
@filmdevil123 6 жыл бұрын
If you include a finger position of half-bent, you can count up to nearly 30,000
@chrisg3030
@chrisg3030 6 жыл бұрын
Positional counting marks an important step on from tallying or one-for-one counting, since it allows us to represent the many with a few, in this case 31 with 5, or even 1003 with 10. A simpler way in which fingers might have historically come to be used in positional counting and not just tallying involves hand prints (seen on cave walls round the world). On a flat surface put a small pebble between the thumb and forefinger of a hand print, that represents 1. Move it to between the forefinger and middle finger, that's 2. Move it on to between the middle and ring finger, that's 3. And between ring and pinkie is 4. To get 5 leave the pebble where it was and put a second pebble between thumb and forefinger again. Keep on moving and adding like this, and when all four gaps between fingers are occupied, we have 10. We're relying on the fact that 1+2+3+4=10. Instead of hand prints you can use any device with 4 obvious places or spaces, and the simplest I can think of is a cross-hair grid still with us as the + sign. (A 9-space grid is still with us as #.)
@advaithbala3087
@advaithbala3087 4 жыл бұрын
You know what this means? This guy just created an exhaustive list of every gang sign
@mahakileach9223
@mahakileach9223 5 жыл бұрын
each of your fingers can be represented as closed or open (0 or 1), therefor 2^5 is the amount of different configurations one hand can be in(32). so both hands(2^10) can actually count up to 1024. ;).
@alphaengineering1278
@alphaengineering1278 7 жыл бұрын
I can't do the number 9 :(
@VeganSemihCyprus33
@VeganSemihCyprus33 7 жыл бұрын
Can you do the number 4? :D
@wisecase2136
@wisecase2136 7 жыл бұрын
kkkkkk
@chrisg3030
@chrisg3030 6 жыл бұрын
Me neither, even though it looks easy in the vid. 8 is hard enough, but I can just about use my retracted thumb to hold the other fingers down. Soon as I extend it to make a 1 to bring it up to 9 this leaves my hand looking like a claw in an old horror movie. Same goes for other odd numbers except 1,3,7,31, all because of these frequently conflicting tasks on the thumb. I'm still very interested though, and maybe it is possible to construct a shorter natural number sequence (that is count) using only the physically possible finger moves. I'll try.
@sophiegrey9576
@sophiegrey9576 6 жыл бұрын
Use your left hand?
@chrisg3030
@chrisg3030 6 жыл бұрын
Yes, I found a small improvement doing it on my left hand. The ring finger (the 8) remains standing slightly proud of the others when I take away my thumb from it to make a 1, whereas on the right hand the ring finger goes back to being pretty much as bent as the others. Interesting also that I can do a 9 even to that small extent with the left only after doing an 8, the fingers just about stay in place after the thumb has been taken away. (I'm right handed by the way). Please tell me your experiences. The whole thing seems as much a question of human physiology as pure arithmetic, and all the more interesting for that.
@PEPPERslim_
@PEPPERslim_ 4 ай бұрын
I saw a shor of someone teaching this but i skipped it. Later when i was trying to go to bed i had an urge to learn it but i taught my self instead of going on my phone to look it up. It was pretty fun
@jmitzenmacher5
@jmitzenmacher5 7 жыл бұрын
0:45 ahhhhhh.... its binary!
@jmitzenmacher5
@jmitzenmacher5 7 жыл бұрын
1:40 ohhhhhh....... its a binary flip clock!
@jmitzenmacher5
@jmitzenmacher5 7 жыл бұрын
2:20 oooooooo..... its a 10 bit binary flip clock! 1024=2^10 That's 1024 values: 0 - 1023
@youngdeok6014
@youngdeok6014 7 жыл бұрын
Jacob M SHUT UP!!!
@lordgarmadon8860
@lordgarmadon8860 6 жыл бұрын
Young Deok Let him speak.
@jimroberts2647
@jimroberts2647 5 жыл бұрын
A bit late to the "show", but that was my reaction. Being a computer geek / programmer / tech / etcetera, it clicked immediately when he started counting through the first time.
@i3lle
@i3lle 4 жыл бұрын
This is impressive! You are too smart to be able to think of this way of counting to 1000! This way is going to be great with math problems. Congratulations!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@SlyJak2
@SlyJak2 8 жыл бұрын
This is so useful, helpful for some daily situations, thanks!
@ANT-jm4qx
@ANT-jm4qx 7 жыл бұрын
If you use signed numbers you can count from -512 to 511.
@dippy_sippy
@dippy_sippy 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Sakurai, very cool
@augustdahlkvist3998
@augustdahlkvist3998 8 жыл бұрын
If you use a similar thing but having three states on each finger: down, curled and up. You can count to 59048.
@KareemHillJr
@KareemHillJr 4 жыл бұрын
Sakurai teaching us how to throw gang signs.
@Not_Me994
@Not_Me994 2 жыл бұрын
Dude... Counting with Binary system is actualy brilliant!
@Archiekunst
@Archiekunst 8 жыл бұрын
I had imagined you take your background music from Satie. Do you compose your own?
@3blue1brown
@3blue1brown 8 жыл бұрын
This one is some stock track, but for other videos I'll compose something simple.
@Archiekunst
@Archiekunst 8 жыл бұрын
3Blue1Brown It's not just some stock track, it's Erik Satie's Gnossiene
@McRaylie
@McRaylie 8 жыл бұрын
It's called "Gymnopédie No. 3" by chamonix
@TheScabbage
@TheScabbage 8 жыл бұрын
+McRaylie uhhmm.. who is chamonix? Gymnopédies were composed by Erik Satie over a hundred years ago.
@choudhuryup6084
@choudhuryup6084 7 жыл бұрын
its none of the gymnopedies actually. it quite possibly could be a gnossiene, but it could also just be a satie-style piece. as in, a total rip off.
@caleborg5688
@caleborg5688 5 жыл бұрын
my brain for no apparent reason: your middle finger is the third finger over. but also my brain for no apparent reason: yes but your middle finger is also your fourth finger but also my computer for no apparent reason: yes but your middle finger is actually your 100th finger...
@DRRRRZ
@DRRRRZ 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Sakurai-san very cool!
@hikaru-live
@hikaru-live 5 жыл бұрын
Finger counting in binary... Since some gestures can be awkward, an alternative would be using one hand for 4 bits instead of 5. This would reduce the range to 16 on one hand and 256 on both hands, but it has the benefit that with two gestures (both hands, or two single-handed gestures) you deliver exactly one byte. It also means one gesture matches one hexadecimal digit for the transcriber.
@vystorm
@vystorm 2 жыл бұрын
That's roughly ¼ the digits though
@hikaru-live
@hikaru-live 2 жыл бұрын
@@vystorm But it aligns to the nibble on one hand and the byte on both hands. Since the byte is common on modern computers, it can be less error-prone when passing computer data through gestures.
@vystorm
@vystorm 2 жыл бұрын
@@hikaru-live That is certainly fair, and it is quite a lot easier to do than all five, it's so hard to move the ring finger on it's own. A lot less potential counting though. A compromise would be to use two finger positions on four finger per hand, but it gets a bit messy.
@ravinsharma2501
@ravinsharma2501 9 жыл бұрын
Oh man. I just learn something weird almost immediately, Thanks! A need trick to teach my nephew and niece. What is this system of counting called?
@ravinsharma2501
@ravinsharma2501 9 жыл бұрын
+Ravin Sharma The way I think about this is there is a hard limit that grows from right most finger to the left most finger on a hand. By checking what is the current left most finger that point out, I know the baseline number I'm on. So I'm incrementing from the current baseline number from left to right, but starting the counting sequence from right finger of the hand.
@3blue1brown
@3blue1brown 9 жыл бұрын
+Ravin Sharma I believe it's called finger binary.
@Achillionable
@Achillionable 6 жыл бұрын
Ravin Sharma Well basically it's binary numbers Up fingers are 1s, fingers not stood up are 0s
@andretsang7337
@andretsang7337 8 жыл бұрын
I love that the finger movement were on beat with the music.
@bikramkalsi1
@bikramkalsi1 9 жыл бұрын
Feels like one level deeper than Numberphile
@drone_better7757
@drone_better7757 6 жыл бұрын
And you haven't even seen calculus, or gradiential descent, or linear algebra.
@dranreb.june.cubelo2735
@dranreb.june.cubelo2735 2 жыл бұрын
i am absolutely mind blown of how simple this is, i am now proud to be able to count to 31 with just 1 hand
@sebastiansimon7557
@sebastiansimon7557 8 жыл бұрын
Typo at 1:47: It should be _your_.
@Teth47
@Teth47 7 жыл бұрын
Clever way to flip your audience off without them noticing! Neat though, I might actually end up using this in everyday life, though conceptually in my head. Gives me a tactile thing I can imagine doing as well as a simple image that can store most of the numbers I'd run into on a regular basis.
@jojojorisjhjosef
@jojojorisjhjosef 9 жыл бұрын
I cant do 8 or 9 since my ring finger can't move individually from my middle finger.
@KuraSourTakanHour
@KuraSourTakanHour 9 жыл бұрын
+jojojorisjhjosef Try moving the fingers to be kept down in front of eachother, or close together, so they're held down and don't come up by reflex.
@piotr00001
@piotr00001 7 жыл бұрын
jojojorisjhjosef I have the same problem. This may be some anatomical precondition. In fact, a can raise the ring finger, but only halfway.
@stan.rarick8556
@stan.rarick8556 4 жыл бұрын
Perfect for fuzzy math!
@08Lucass
@08Lucass 4 жыл бұрын
A Brazilian channel was inspired by your video, the name of the channel is a common point. : D
@LeanneMustafa
@LeanneMustafa 4 жыл бұрын
Smash brought me here. Don't ask. 🙄
@Dizord69
@Dizord69 4 жыл бұрын
teacher: the test is easy. the test:
@SeaCreature_
@SeaCreature_ 7 жыл бұрын
Awesome educational video as usual thank you. Now adding our toe fingers to this, would go as high as 2**20 :)
@justinwhite2725
@justinwhite2725 6 жыл бұрын
A friend and i came up with this technique too (we are both programmers) Our difference was that our hands were palm-down and the thumb was '1' or '32'
@JohnSmith-zf1lq
@JohnSmith-zf1lq 8 жыл бұрын
My no.8 finger lacks the flexibility to independently lift. :(
@drone_better7757
@drone_better7757 6 жыл бұрын
8 is your index finger.
@agfd5659
@agfd5659 5 жыл бұрын
@@drone_better7757 no, 8 is the ring finger
@jameslemmate5177
@jameslemmate5177 8 жыл бұрын
Wow, that's the first time I see someone else use this method, I thought of it on my own 2 years ago and taught it to a friend. 132 became an inside joke. The only difference is that I twist my left hand so that the thumb is always the smallest number of the hand. 132 still works though.
@Correa-pi2tx
@Correa-pi2tx 4 жыл бұрын
0:35 How to do number 5?
@Roxzer
@Roxzer 3 жыл бұрын
4+1 :/
@analuizamilanbelfiore6740
@analuizamilanbelfiore6740 2 жыл бұрын
🖕+👍
@anonymousfamous4396
@anonymousfamous4396 3 жыл бұрын
Someone: You f*ck, why are you showing that fingers to me? Me: I just wanted to say 132 days left till Christmas!
@danielsoderstrom1930
@danielsoderstrom1930 7 жыл бұрын
I-It's BINARY in HANDS? (Why didn't I think of that -.-)
@CasualPythonCoder
@CasualPythonCoder Жыл бұрын
4, 128 and 132 are my favourites.
@eddbb
@eddbb 4 жыл бұрын
I'm here because of smash bros
@srpenguinbr
@srpenguinbr 6 жыл бұрын
Actually, you can count still higher if you can leva your finger in half. In this case, we could go all the way until 2*3^10 instead of 2^10. However, it is pretty hard to do what I said and, after counting until 54, my fingers began hurting a little.
@srpenguinbr
@srpenguinbr 6 жыл бұрын
you coul also count until 2^11+2^10 if, when completed 2^10, you move an arbitrary finger to some side, as a reminder that you have 2^10. Don't leave it unfolded, just partially. When achieving more 2^10, open it compretely
@alanzinho6970
@alanzinho6970 4 жыл бұрын
Vim pelo Ponto em Comum!
@2n974
@2n974 4 жыл бұрын
Vim pelos recomendados do youtube,esse vídeo mostra algo bem difícil -e inútil-
@TonhoTxr
@TonhoTxr 4 жыл бұрын
Vcs sabem qual é essa música de fundo ?
@carecasaliente3344
@carecasaliente3344 4 жыл бұрын
@@TonhoTxr Satie - Gymnopédie
@TonhoTxr
@TonhoTxr 4 жыл бұрын
@@carecasaliente3344 obg❤️
@josianetroina
@josianetroina 4 жыл бұрын
@@carecasaliente3344 PQP OBG MOÇA D VDD
@zat1245
@zat1245 5 жыл бұрын
I thought it might have something to do with binary. Binary comes up so much for me that when I saw 817 and the positions of the fingers I immediately saw fingers as ones and knuckles as zeroes making 1100110001 which is 817. Never thought to count binary with fingers. Brilliant.
@acerolakkj4576
@acerolakkj4576 4 жыл бұрын
alguém veio pelo ponto em comum? kk
@justaduck6240
@justaduck6240 4 жыл бұрын
Me recomendaram
@yodavanckart
@yodavanckart 4 жыл бұрын
Não, pelo menos eu não
@gabrielbrasil4297
@gabrielbrasil4297 3 жыл бұрын
Eu vim man kkkk
@rngwrldngnr
@rngwrldngnr 7 жыл бұрын
I think you'd want to use the thumb for the low bit both times, but I can't think of a good way to show hand ordering. I'm mostly thinking about signaling large numbers across a crowded room or something like that.
@kris.yochev
@kris.yochev 8 жыл бұрын
The best is the four :D 0:10
@PzMcQunn
@PzMcQunn Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Replace an "up finger" with a 1, and a "down finger" with a zero, then you have BINARY! So for example Pinky-Middle-Index-Thumb is the same as 10111, which is 23 in binary. This system is literally how binary works, how computers count.
@miguelrodriguesrocha1625
@miguelrodriguesrocha1625 4 жыл бұрын
Mais alguém daqui veio pelo ponto em comum?
@muirize5319
@muirize5319 4 жыл бұрын
Vai se fuder
@miguelrodriguesrocha1625
@miguelrodriguesrocha1625 4 жыл бұрын
@@muirize5319 ui ui ficou bravinha 😔👌 kk
@muirize5319
@muirize5319 4 жыл бұрын
@@miguelrodriguesrocha1625 Não Só odeio demente mesmo
@yuribrennerlucas2314
@yuribrennerlucas2314 4 жыл бұрын
????
@superbseth64
@superbseth64 3 жыл бұрын
Me now as an adult: wow what an informative video about counting to 1000 on my fingers 🙂 Me as a kid: haha funny middle finger at 4 🤣
@jmcwd
@jmcwd 9 жыл бұрын
wouldn't that go up to 1023?
@philipphoehn3883
@philipphoehn3883 6 жыл бұрын
2:10
@bjornwad
@bjornwad 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for teaching me this skill!
@Scorpionwacom
@Scorpionwacom 8 жыл бұрын
I’m speechless. Just 33!
@lovingboarding
@lovingboarding 8 жыл бұрын
This channel is gold!
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