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You can get to 1023 with binary fingers, assuming you have all your fingers.
Wow. I like that a lot. Have you done that or is this just a thought?
Ive tried but I don't really have a use case in my day to day life beyond counting to 30 after that I'd rather keep paper records so I don't lose count.
Anyways, here the Wikipedia article about it.
Oh yeah you're right, I was just thinking of 2^9
Anytime!