and people get especially weirded out when you count
on your fingers
in binary (up to 1023). Just reaching the number 4 upsets them.
I wonder why. :-)
A fellow sysadmin and I play pool approximately every two weeks, and
for the last two or three sessions we have developed a system of
calling most shots[%] entirely by hand, no voice. This is relevant
here because it is binary-based, with the four fingers of one hand
being the four bits necessary to identify a ball number 1-15.
[%] We play that all shots must be called in detail - though if there
is a really obvious choice of shot and you line up for it without
saying anything, the call is taken to be "the shot I'm obviously
lining up for".
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