Ancestors

Written by HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml on 2025-01-14 at 17:13

I have a 64-bit gender

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Written by CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 2025-01-14 at 20:00

There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don’t.

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Written by bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 2025-01-14 at 20:24

There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who get ternary; those who don’t; those who thought this was going to be a binary joke

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Written by stebo on 2025-01-15 at 00:27

There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who get quaternary; those who don’t; those who thought this was going to be a ternary joke; those who can see where this is going…

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Written by flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works on 2025-01-15 at 03:08

I might be a slow learner but I’m catching on…

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Toot

Written by JackbyDev on 2025-01-15 at 12:32

Regardless of what base you’re using, 10 is always the nth number. In base 10 (normal numbers), 10 is 10th. In base 2 it is the 2nd.

In base 16 (hexadecimal) it is the 16th.

The original joke is “there are 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary and those who don’t l” because 10 in binary is 2 in base 10. But they’re pointing out that a similar joke works for all bases of numbers.

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Descendants

Written by flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works on 2025-01-16 at 05:13

I love that you felt like this needed explaining - thanks!

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Written by theherk@lemmy.world on 2025-01-16 at 06:52

Some of us would argue 10 is the n+1 th number because zero comes first. Otherwise you’re just throwing a new digit into the mix when you get to 10.

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Written by JackbyDev on 2025-01-16 at 15:06

Zero comes zeroth.

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