On: Counting in hexadecimal on your fingers

[xirium]

With 10 fingers, you can count to 2^10.

[JacobAldridge → xirium]

Useful, unless you're my ISP and you dictate that 1Gb = 1000Mb.

Ah, Telstra Bigpond - a team that would mandate pi=3.0 because the value of simplicity far outweighs, you know, actually having practical applications.

[ralph → JacobAldridge]

1Gb is 1000Mb. 1Gib is 1024Mib.