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That said, I love mathematical curiosities. There's quality time to be spent at Wikipedia looking up different bases and their obscure applications.
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Says the math major. :P
Actually, I discovered today that I count music in base 4. Most musical phrases are 4 or 8 bars long, and the melody is usually with the flutes or clarinets or trumpets or saxes or French horns or anywhere except the trombone, so I tend to get a lot of long stretches of rest measured in multiples of 4 bars. I count 4 bars on 4 fingers of my right hand, then increment a finger on my left hand and start over. That gets me to 16, and if the rest goes even longer (I've seen it go up to 40), I'll stick my left thumb out and do everything over again (32 bars).
Sometimes I think composers hate the low brass. Then I switched to stage band, and it was awesome (and freaking *hard*).