My Binary Finger Counting page and binary tutorial have now been on the web for 12 years, almost as long as the web has been around! It's fun to see all the other Binary Finger Counting pages online (I even saw a T-Shirt! Cool!), but I hope you find this one to be as good as the rest.

I learned how to interpret binary from reading Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain in college. Now, you gotta understand that for an artistic, creative-type like myself, suddenly understanding how binary works was a big deal, worthy of running out of the bathroom stall where I was reading the book and yelling Eureka! Of course, I immediately got a pen from my dorm room and went back and wrote the whole process on the bathroom stall walls for future reference.

It was shortly thereafter while discussing with friends how ancient cave artists alledgedly kept track of the number of animals that they had killed by counting on their fingers that I learned Binary Finger Counting. Programmer extraordinaire/good friend Jim Reneau pointed out to me that if caveman had only known binary, he could have counted 1023 animals instead of limiting himself to a mere 10 using 10 fingers. He then proceeded to demonstrate to me Binary Finger Counting.

NOTE: Fortunately, caveman didn't know how to count to 1023 on 10 fingers, because some of the animals he wasconsuming could have become extinct thousands of years ago!

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