Cartoon Math

So I was doing some character study today and it occurred to me that since cartoons usually only have four fingers on each hand, they probably wouldn't have a base 10 math system like we do. Four fingers on each hand would seem to lead to a base 8 system. After a little research **cough** **wikipedia** **cough** I learned that this is called "Octal" (instead of decimal) and has in fact already been used in both real world fictional settings.

In counting with a base eight system, only the numbers 0-7 are used and the ten's place becomes the eight's place. Things start to get really tricky when the hundreds place then becomes the sixty fours place.

So let's say that you somehow meet up with Roger Rabbit and cross over into the toon world... All of a sudden, your dollar is only worth sixty four cents... The comparable max speed limit of sixty five mph (assuming toons care about such things) would be 101mph... 1ft equals 14 inches... And the legal drinking age would be 25...

Here's some more fun base eight math for ya: 5+5=12 1+7=10 22+36=60 20-2=16 75-25=50 77-10=67 12x2=24 3x10=30 10x10=100

A quick run down of base eight numbers from zero to sixty four:
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 100

...and that ladies and gentlemen completes the random thought that ran through my head earlier today. Completely useless but fun to think about :)