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One would also say that about understanding binary. Understanding is to me clearly a scale with no hard limits; what does it mean to fully understand binary? Kn
by Jach 16y ago
One would also say that about understanding binary. Understanding is to me clearly a scale with no hard limits; what does it mean to fully understand binary? Knowing powers of 2 up to arbitrary n? Being able to make finite state machines for sequence detection, gray code converters, etc.? Knowing binary jokes when you see them?
- rflrob 16y agoI don't think binary is really subtle enough to have a fine gradation of shades of grey. I interpret "Understand binary" to mean something along the lines of "be comfortable with the notion that the numbering system we use has an arbitrary base (10), and that you can still have the same radix notation with a base of 2." If you get the joke about 10 people, you probably understand binary, and vice-versa. And now, for a completely different binary joke: I've got 1100011 but a bit ain't one.