There are 10 kinds of people

[Matt]

Discuss.

-m

[TheRocket]

I don't understand binary, but I understand enough to know that 1 and 0 make up binary. And you said there are 10 kinds of people. LAWL.


My boyfriend is the reason 10/10/10 might be our wedding date hahaha. Well, that's a lie, I suggested it because I thougth it was CUTE.

[Sable]

01000101011110000110001101100101011011000110110001100101011011100111010000101110

[TheRocket]

01000101011110000110001101100101011011000110110001100101011011100111010000101110

What'd you just say about mah momma?

[Cake]

There are 10 kinds of people. Those sick of that joke, and those who aren't.

[TheRocket]

The cake is LYING because the CAKE IS A LIE.


Wait, aren't you sick of that joke yet, as well?

[Cake]

What? No. I think everyone just knows the answer now, because it's been explained to people who don't understand. So now we have 11 types of people. Those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who know what the joke means, but still can't binary.

[Lyinginbedmon]

For those that have no idea what's going on:

In binary...
00 = 0
01 = 1
10 = 2
11 = 3
100 = 4
101 = 5
110 = 6
111 = 7
etc.

So in binary 10 means two, but in everyday math it means ten.

[TheRocket]

Ohh I see. I have to admit I've never actually heard the joke before. So I thought it was kinda cute. And I felt smart that I got it. Hahaha. Oh, my everyday accomplishments.

[the amativeness]

I had the most horrible dream. There were ones and zeros everywhere. And I thought I saw a two.

It's okay Bender, there's no such thing as two.

[King Kool]

There are 10 kinds of people. Nine sick of that joke, and the one guy who isn't.

Fixed.

[Evil Jim]

01000101011110000110001101100101011011000110110001100101011011100111010000101110

Excellent.

I learned to count in binary on my fingers for larger numbers. For a similar reason a friend of mine wants to get a personalized license plate that says "BIN 138."

[TheRocket]

NOOOOOO I PASSED MAH 1337 POST.

[Evil Jim]

NOOOOOO I PASSED MAH 1337 POST.

Just go back & delete a few.

[Bob The Magic Camel]

There are 10 kinds of people. Nine sick of that joke, and the one guy who isn't.

Fixed.

I concur. The joke died a slow painful death several years ago, which is a shame when there are better number base related jokes out there. Not good, these are maths jokes, but better. My personal favourite was

People would be far more comfortable with death tolls if they were expressed in Hex, after all 7D0 dead is far less shocking than 2000 dead. Just don't convert to binary, that has a habit of blowing things way out of proportion.

[the amativeness]

People would be far more comfortable with death tolls if they were expressed in Hex, after all 7D0 dead is far less shocking than 2000 dead. Just don't convert to binary, that has a habit of blowing things way out of proportion.

11111010000 dead. Authorities are stunned.

[tak197]

I am really starting to get sick of that joke. To the point that I am going to start threatening Matt with Twilight viewings for starting this GD thread.

[TheRocket]

You know what, that joke was teh highlight of my day! Back off hustler!

[Dominic Appleguard]

But don't panic. Base eight is just like base ten, really - if you're missing two fingers.
Shall we have a go at it? Hang on.

You can't take three from two
two is less than three
so you look at the four in the eights place.
Now, that's really four eights, so you make it three eights, regroup,
and you change the eight to eight ones and you add them to the two,
and you get one-two base eight, which is ten base ten,
and you take away three, that's seven...

[Cureless_Poison]

01000100 01101001 01110011 01110010 01100101 01100111 01100001 01110010 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00101100 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110011 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01100100 01101001 01100011 01101011 01110011

Better.

[the amativeness]

But don't panic. Base eight is just like base ten, really - if you're missing two fingers.
Shall we have a go at it? Hang on.

You can't take three from two
two is less than three
so you look at the four in the eights place.
Now, that's really four eights, so you make it three eights, regroup,
and you change the eight to eight ones and you add them to the two,
and you get one-two base eight, which is ten base ten,
and you take away three, that's seven...

Okay?

Now instead of four in the eights place
you've got three cause you added one,
That is to say eight to the two,
But you can't take seven from three
So you look at the sixty-fours.

"Sixty-four? How did sixty-four get into it?", I hear you cry.
Well sixty-four is eight squared, don't you see?

Well, you ask a silly question you get a silly answer.

[Dominic Appleguard]

From the three you then use one to make eight ones,
and you add those ones to the three, and you get one-three base eight,
Or, in other words, in base ten you have eleven,
and you take away seven, and seven from eleven is four!
Now you go back to the sixty-fours, you're left with two,
you take away one from two and that leaves...?

Now let's not always see the same hands.

[Unclever title]

There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who are Matt and those who are not Matt.

Tim is an exclusive OR gate.

[JesterJ.]

There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who are tired of useless polls, and those who should stop making useless polls

[Shandi]

I like when Matt gets bored and gives homework assignments to the forumites. It makes me smile.