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There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. This joke subverts the trope of phrases that begin with "there are two types of people in the world..." and relies on an ambiguous meaning of the expression 10, which in the binary numeral system is equal to the decimal number 2.
14 lis 2008 · By Rick Regan November 14th, 2008. “There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.” — Unknown. Figure it out yet? “10” in binary numerals equals “2” in decimal numerals, so when you read the sentence, pronounce “10” as “two.”
22 lut 2018 · As the old joke goes, “There are 10 types of people, those that understand how binary numbers work and those that don’t.” Let’s get you into the “understand” group. Binary is the type of numbering system that is native to computers.
If you don’t understand binary though, you’d think there are ten types of people, which would be weird. In addition to decimal (base-10), octal (base-8) and binary (base-2), hexadecimal (base-16) is also used commonly in programming.
There are only 10 types of people in the world – those who understand binary, and those who don’t. The pun is that the binary translation for decimal digit 2 is ‘10’. Not decimal TEN, but a binary one-zero.
12 lis 2016 · This joke is a piece of verbal folklore – more specifically a riddle. It uses the similarity between representing the number 10 in decimal format and the number 2 in binary format to trick the person who is reading or hearing it. Tags/Keywords: binary, joke
21 lut 2018 · Binary Basics: 10 Types of People. As the old joke goes, “There are 10 types of people, those that understand how binary numbers work and those that don’t.”. Let’s get you into the “understand” group. Binary is the type of numbering system that is native to computers. It is base-2.
