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To: YlangYlangBreeze who wrote (3995)	2/12/2001 11:52:18 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

That's cool. It is much like my knuckle calendar. Make a fist and count knuckles of your 4 fingers (excluding thumb). Using the left hand, ridge of pinky is January (31 days), trough is February (28), ridge of ring finger knuckle is March (also 31), next trough is April (only 30), and so on until July (ridge of knuckle on 1st finger, 31 days). To finish the year, you simply work backward counting August on the 1st finger knuckle again (31 days), September (a trough at 30), etc. All "knuckle" months have 31 days, all "trough" months have 30 (except February of course).

To: YlangYlangBreeze who wrote (3995)	2/13/2001 8:19:24 AM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 6089

I hate to sound dull, but... do you not learn the 'times tables' at school? I don't know if they still have them in the UK, but certainly 20+ years ago you'd learn them - parrot fashion at least, if not understand them. So these days, if you say '7 times 8' I've thought '56' before I've had time to think about any other method of working it out. It seems easier to me, anyway... Only way I'll count on my fingers is if I need to maintain a tally of something up to 1000 and don't want to keep muttering to myself. [if you haven't seen the trick - use binary. 1024 without cheating].