It can be very useful to be able to count on your fingers, particularly if you have to count numbers, which can really mess up verbal counting schemes.
Download the 6 sprites and 17 scripts of "binary_counter" and open it in Scratch
Project Notes
This script contains instructions and animation for learning to count in binary on your fingers.
The thumb is used as the least-significant digit, since it has to move the fastest when counting. A left hand is displayed, to put the least-significant bit on the right where it is most expected.
Of course, when counting on real hands you should use your dominant hand for counting the low-order 5 bits.
space for instructions
up and down arrows to count up and down
r to reset to display screen
c to count up automatically
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it looks like there wasn't alot of scratchers in 2007!
Using both hands, you can count up to 1023!
LOL for 19!
Binary fact: if it is odd, the last bit is always 1, if it is even the last bit is always 0.
4 and 6 is bad!
4 is a bad word >(
Very nice. Have you done multiples of nine on two hands?
I like to count like that it's fun ^-^
I made something to teach you to count bin on your fingers.
wow
very cool!
wow!
I was going to do something like this!
Weird. I agree with lclifford!
The mod operator seems to be fixed in v12 of the Java implementation, so negative numbers now work correctly. Hooray!
Negative numbers work correctly in the squeak version of scratch, but not currently in the JAVA version.
It can be very useful to be able to count on your fingers, particularly if you have to count numbers, which can really mess up verbal counting schemes.
thats really weird