"David WE Roberts" writes:

"John Rumm" wrote in message
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On 20/02/2012 16:08, David WE Roberts wrote:
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Count yourself you lucky you did not need to do it in binary ;-)
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Am I the only one who whiled away an idle moment or two by
teaching the kids to count in binary on their fingers?

No.

However decimal 4 and 6 can be misconstrued when rendered in
binary when counting from the thumb.
One is a very positive number :-)

Eighteen is significant to some people.

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Jón Fairbairn