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36 represented in chisanbop, where four fingers and a thumb are touching the table and the rest of the digits are raised. The three fingers on the left hand represent 10+10+10 = 30; the thumb and one finger on the right hand represent 5+1=6. Counting from 1 to 20 in Chisanbop. Each finger has a value of one, while the thumb has a value of five.
The system was called the System Ten because it performed all of its computations in decimal, as opposed to its counterparts which operated in binary. (It was never called "System 10", with or without a hyphen, although many countries tried to rename it. In Spain, the complaint was that "System Ten" means "Hold the system!") [clarification needed].
The main difference between the two systems is that the "German" or "French" system starts counting with the thumb, while the "American" system starts counting with the index finger. [12] In the system used for example in Germany and France, the thumb represents 1, the thumb plus the index finger represents 2, and so on, until the thumb plus ...
LONDON/SYDNEY (Reuters) -The U.S. dollar was poised for a big weekly gain on Friday, towering near one-year highs as a hawkish turn from the Federal Reserve chief sent short-term Treasury yields ...
Finger binary is a system for counting and displaying binary numbers on the fingers of either or both hands. Each finger represents one binary digit or bit. This allows counting from zero to 31 using the fingers of one hand, or 1023 using both: that is, up to 2 5 −1 or 2 10 −1 respectively.
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He has started at least 10 games in each of his nine NFL seasons. Last season, Campbell got a high honor as the Green Bay Packers' Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee. That award goes to the ...
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