{"id":481,"date":"2010-11-01T08:17:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T13:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/2010\/11\/counting-laps-in-binary\/"},"modified":"2010-11-01T21:26:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T02:26:37","slug":"counting-laps-in-binary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/2010\/11\/counting-laps-in-binary\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting Laps in Binary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I had to count 24 laps, 4 per mile times 6 miles. So to keep me busy as I ran around the loop over and over again I decided to count on my fingers. However, instead of using base 10 I used base 2 or binary. This allowed me to easily count to 8 on one hand. I used my thumb to hold down 3 of my 4 fingers. A finger up is a 0 and a finger held down is a 1. My index finger is the 1s place (2**0 where &#8216;M**N&#8217; means M raised to the N power), my middle finger is the 2s place (2**1), and my third finger is the 4s place (2**2). But enough of the math, here is a table of the number and signs as I counted. <\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>Laps Completed<\/th>\n<th>Finger Position<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/images\/hand0.jpg\" alt=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/images\/hand1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/images\/hand2.jpg\" alt=\"2\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3 = 2 + 1<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/images\/hand3.jpg\" alt=\"3\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/images\/hand4.jpg\" alt=\"4\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5 = 4 + 1<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/images\/hand5.jpg\" alt=\"5\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6 = 4 + 2<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/images\/hand6.jpg\" alt=\"5\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7 = 4 + 2 + 1<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/images\/hand7.jpg\" alt=\"5\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I could have counted to 16 with all 4 fingers, where my pinkie is the 8s place (2**3), but it wasn&#8217;t worth it. Anyways this kept me busy enough as I struggled to concentrate on just running and counting to 8 three times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I had to count 24 laps, 4 per mile times 6 miles. So to keep me busy as I ran around the loop over and over again I decided to count on my fingers. However, instead of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/2010\/11\/counting-laps-in-binary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}