How to Count on Your Fingers (1956) [Short Story]
by Frederik Pohl
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Summary
(IBList user synopsis):
Pohl explains the benefits of the binary system over the more common decimal system.
Originally published in Science Fiction Stories, September 1956.
Reprinted in:
- Coming Attractions, ed. Martin Greenberg, Gnome 1957
- Digits and Dastards, NY: Ballantine 1966
- The Best of Frederik Pohl, Nelson Doubleday 1975.
Original title: How to Count on Your Fingers
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Hard Science→ Mathematics
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Digits and Dastards (1966) [Collection]
Author: Frederik Pohl
Best of Frederik Pohl, the (1975) [Collection]
Author: Frederik Pohl
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