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There are three kinds of people in the world: the ones who understand binary and the ones who don't.
by ww520 13y ago
There are three kinds of people in the world: the ones who understand binary and the ones who don't.
- sprawl_ 13y agoThere are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who didn't expect this to be in base 3.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- ColinWright 13y agoThat's a weird non-joke version. The ones I know are: The usual: There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't. Then there was: There are 11 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't. Which is a riff on: There are 3 kinds of people in the world, those who can count, and those who can't. Then along came: There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary, those that don't, and those that didn't expect this joke to be in ternary. Yours, on the other hand, just doesn't really make sense. Maybe I'm missing something ...
- kerbs 13y agoThe joke is he doesn't get binary. ...or off by 1 error. OK, I'm confused too :)
- phaemon 13y agoAlso: There are 11 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who confuse it with Gray code.
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- mirkules 13y agoMaybe he's a SQL programmer (a binary column can be true, false or NULL).
- leeoniya 13y agoBinary, as easy as 1, 10, 11.
- Danieru 13y agoI always hated this joke because to me understanding binary does not mean understanding two's complement. Thus the joke took a on a meta-joke: using two bits to represent a binary state instead of one bit. If the joke teller understood binary in their heart they would use a proper enumeration without just using integers. Also the proper syntax is 0b10 not 10.
- davrosthedalek 13y agoThere are 10 kinds of people in the world. The ones who understand binary and 9 others I can't remember.