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[mathemagicalschema]

• I returned from the Canadas. That was a while ago, whoops.
• I am two decades old as of yesterday! Le Dad and I went canoeing in the Kankakee River and had sushi, and this morning I had the taaaastiest mushroom+asparagus crepe. No longer am I technically a teenager!¹ I can feel less awkward about revealing my age!
• I seem to be on track to move in the beginning of August. I finally got the right documents together to open a bank account, I'm in talks with a couple of people about rooms for August, and I haven't got too much packing to do.
• Kinda stressed. Definitely under time pressure. Waiting for a bunch of stuff I can't control to come together.
• I will now pack a box. Packing a box is a thing I can control.
• I wish the weather was cool enough for me to want tea.

^{1 In base 10. Fuck, in dozenal I've got four more years to go.}

Comments

[steorra]

but in dozenal there are no teenagers because teen is a decimal-based unit

I like base 12. I made a way to count on my fingers with it, years ago. I sometimes still use it.

[mathemagicalschema]

Naive base10 fingercounting: can count up to 10
Base12 fingercounting: up to 100/144

I think I know what *I'd* choose.

[steorra]

:-)

Did I tell you my method before? Because yeah, I can get to 12 on one hand.

[mathemagicalschema]

I don't think we've talked about it before, but the method that I know is pointing at each of the three joints of the fingers with the thumb, with one hand for the one's place and the other hand for the dozen's place.

I can *theoretically* count much higher in ternary (one place per finger, 10 places, 3^10) but ternary is harder for me to keep track of.