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These are way better than that bloody binary joke in every computer department.
by Already__Taken 12y ago
These are way better than that bloody binary joke in every computer department.
- leeoniya 12y agothe better version of the binary joke is Binary: as easy as 1, 10, 11
- Someone1234 12y agoAs easy as 3, 2, 1? I realise you read binary from right to left, not left to right, but the sentence is in English so you read that left to right. Also the commas and binary mixed together are a little odd. Least of all because you didn't make all three two binary digits (i.e. 11, 10, 01). Regardless that joke is going to cause more arguments than laughs.
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- sbov 12y agoBase 2 is not special. You do not "read" binary from right to left. At least in English, the most significant digit is on the left, just like any other base (e.g. base 10, base 8, or base 89432890432). Also, for your leading 0, I would write: Bob has 23 apples, and I have 5. I wouldn't write: Bob has 23 apples, and I have 05. Base 2 is not special, so I wouldn't write 01. You can also turn your order argument on its head: since the order of digits in base 10 is exactly the same as base 2 (most significant on the left), you could say that "As easy as 1, 2, 3" should actually be read as "As easy as 3, 2, 1", which matches your binary reading "As easy as 3, 2, 1".
- vacri 12y agoThe two can be melded together: There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who suffer off-by-one errors.
- iak8god 12y agoI like it, but how about: There are only 10 hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
- simulacrum 12y agoI thought it was: There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who were expecting a base 3 joke.
- cgtyoder 12y agoIt really is: There are 10 kind of people in the world: Those who know binary, those who don't, and those who start counting from zero.
- indians_pro 12y ago>and those who start counting from zero. That kills the joke. 'off-by-one' is subtler.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoThere are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who know binary, those who know ternary, those who know base four, ..., and those who know that every base is base 10.
- peapicker 12y agoIt really is: There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who know hexadecimal, and F the rest...