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7 points

exactly!

and i am always in favor of counting with fingers. we were given them for a reason, might as well make the most of them. counting is hard enough as it is

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No, counting with fingers is bad. Count with phalanges instead. It’s more efficient

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Just be sure to do it in binary. You gotta squeeze all of the value out of those phalanges.

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That’s impossible, because it would require tracking each digit at once. Counting in binary is kind of possible with fingers, but not with phalanges.

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Counting cohomology has done to me a numbers x_x

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yeah cohomology can be particularly rough. look on the bright side though, at least you now have the tools to answer this question:

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