For someone just learning math, would it be easier to use your fingers as 1 - 10 or use them as binary 1 - 512?

Question

I'm not JUST learning math but I do have problems with counting, I'm like dyscalculic or something, so would binary fingers be faster and easier than normal counting?

Answer 1

For someone just learning math, it is impossible to teach the binary system. The binary system is, sort of, advanced mathematics. So there is no question of using the fingers as binary from 2^0 to 2^10. ( And by the way, how do someone just learning math learn these raising to the power of 0, 10 etc. )

Answer 2

Only if you're a computer. Machines think in binary because it's easier than base 10. But if you are just learning math, the base 10 system is better to learn because that's all you'll learn until your senior year of high school at the earliest. And there is no such thing as dyscalculic. It's dyslexic.

Answer 3

If you're incredibly quick then I guess so. For normal people then it wouldn't even register to try counting binary on fingers, it would just be too confusing for them.