Talk:Base32

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[edit] Finger counting

I have removed this recent addition from the article:

Base32 can also be used for counting binary, and then each hand represents a digit. With one hand you can count to 31 and with two you can count to 1023. This is how I do it: Since it's hard to keep down the ring finger while having the little and middle finger up, I figured out that keeping them all down (except the thumb), and to indicate that one finger is down, you touch the pawn. The thumb is kept right up, apart from the hand and index finger, and to indicate it's down you touch the index finger.

If any other sources describe this as a procedure used by more people than the author, this may be relevant, though I think it would be more so at Binary. As it stands, unsourced, I don't think it belongs here.--Niels Ø 11:50, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

I do that, too! Of course that doesn't mean that it should be in the article; it's certainly WP:OR, and thus unfortunatly no material for Wikipedia. But since we're talking about it here, I'd like to relate my way of doing it: I rest my hand on a surface such as a table or my thigh. Thumb represents the lowest digit. Touching the surface means 1. I start counting with 0 by moving all fingers up. I use that method of counting when I'm analyzing music; it's amazing how many arrangements fit to the binary scheme - each finger corresponds to a certain level of change or repetition in the music. — Sebastian 19:24, 10 May 2007 (UTC)    (I stopped watching this page as of 04:00, 26 June 2007 (UTC). If you would like to continue the talk, please do so here and let me know.)

[edit] Triaconta-wha?

The part about the 32-sided polygon sounds like pure weapons-grade balonium to me. Anyone for killing it? --tcsetattr (talk / contribs) 21:08, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposal for merging

In reality, the only interesting thing one can say about this base is its use in Base32. In my opinion, the article Base 32 should be "merge" to this article in accordance with Wikipedia:Notability (numbers). QQ (talk) 11:19, 23 May 2008 (UTC)