So yeah, so that’s how I’m memorising them. So I think I’m just sticking to binary for now.
It almost feels like it’d be easier just to remember the 52 cards! I- yeah definitely not. Like I think the key with this is that I’m condensing the information. So base 10 is much more efficient than binary. So this is effectively binary, right, so black red’s are the same as binary. And so I’m condensing like six or five digits down to one or two digits.
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I’ve shown people this trick before and people have said, why don’t you use hexadecimal? Because you can represent eight digits, eight bits, with just like two- two digits. But I’m just- I’m just nowhere near as practiced in that so it would be so much more difficult for me to remember things. So I think I’m just sticking to binary for now.