On: Box Breathing

[pbhjpbhj]

>The advice is to count on the finger of one hand. [...] count breaths in increasing cycles: 1; 1 2; 1 2 3; ...; 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 //

Is this hand counted? Knowing BSL I can count to 0-19 with one hand using unique gestures. Is there an acknowledged way: knuckle counting, binary, other? I note one can get to 19 (from 1) by moving ones gaze from finger joint to joint if you include finger tips.

Always curious to see alternate modes of counting on the fingers.

[will_pseudonym → pbhjpbhj]

You could count from 0 to 35 in base 10, by counting in base 6 by using each hand to count from 0 to 5.

[anonaoeu → pbhjpbhj]

I find binary the easiest. You can get to 2^10 = 1024 easily.

[pjscott → anonaoeu]

1023, if you're using the natural representation of zero.

[veli_joza → anonaoeu]

If you raise and lower your arm, that's two more bits for total of 4096.

[Nexxxeh → anonaoeu]

I can do it, but holding the middle finger down while the surrounding fingers are up is not comfortable.

[fsiefken → anonaoeu]

cognitive load would be higher