More like in base 1010 or base 10
Yeah I doubt non-programmers would catch that.
More like in base 10 or base 10
Exactly! And don’t forget about hexadecimal aka base 10
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Then you would need an unique symbol for every possible number
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Both work because the scale is 1-10. Binary just has fewer intermediate steps. Nobody is a binary 7.
The joke is binary 10 is 2. Vs base 10 of 10
Thanks for the explanation! I’ve only been doing digital logic since 1976 so I’m still a bit confused by it.
No worries. I have a networking background so I’ll never forget binary.
0 = 000
1 = 001
2 = 010
3 = 011 4 = 100So 100 / 25 = 100 (4 in binary)
Here’s another neat one: 1010 / 101 = 10
That’s clear. I thought this joke didn’t quite work because of the same reason, too.
I think they’re saying that on a binary 1 to 10 scale, the range is only (decimal) 2, so a 10/10 for binary is a 2/2 in decimal (where you can only be a 1/2 or 2/2), which is still the highest value.
Considering the artist I think the joke was 2/10 vs 10/10.
This isn’t XKCD. Still to each their own.I forwarded this to some network engineer friends and they got a kick out of it.
Oh, definitely. The intended joke is out of 10 in decimal.
pH, cause you basic.
I’ll admit, this took a few seconds and a reread to process correctly. Well played
You couldn’t even write “base 4” when using base 3+1
How do people have a meme for every situation?
One must have 10 memes (in base 10).
There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don’t.
There are 10 types of people in the world: those that understand n-ary, those that confuse it with (n-1)-ary, those that confuse it with (n-2)-ary, …, those that confuse it with ternary, those that confuse it with binary, and those that don’t understand it at all.
And those who don’t know this joke is in ternary.
there are two kinds of people, those who can extrapolate from incomplete data
What’s the other kind?
Split the difference, it’s octal.
Base 10 baby.
10/100
I’m old. This started being a joke, to my knowledge, in the mid-1980s. I’m sure it predates that timeframe. Still a great joke though.
You are a 1 (in binary).
I feel I must explain the joke
1 is yes
0 is no
TRUE
So i kinda went on a thought rabbit hole here
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I like jokes like this, in part because they only work in written form. Because if they were using base 10 they’d say “You’re a ten”, but base 2 would be “You’re a one zero” (or one oh)
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Wait, do people actually say “ten” when expressing two in binary? Do they actually say “one, ten, eleven, one hundred, one hundred and one, one hundred and ten…”?
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Have I been expressing binary incorrectly?
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Am I overthinking this?
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Honestly though, my favorite written pun is “Religions are more interested in profits than prophets”
Anyway, puns are fun. How do you say binary numbers?
You’re not overthinking it at all and have hit upon an important point. The problem with “ten” is that it’s too easily confused with 1010_2 or 0x0A_16. One-zero base 2 is unambiguous. Also one, ten, eleven etc would get very unwieldy very quickly, and as it already gets unwieldy very quickly even when just quoting digits, that’s why we have hex and octal.
Probably overthinking it (i hope). I usually say each binary digit individually, e.g. “one zero” for 10. Just makes more sense to me at least.
People don’t usually change the name of the number when working in different basis so you would in fact just say “ten”. If the actual representation was important you would say “one, zero, one, zero”. I don’t think people would say one thousand and ten as the word thousand is more about the actual number than the string “1000”.
You can use other round quantity when working on other basis, like a dozen or a gross in base twelve.
Yeah but ten is the name for the concept of this many: iiiiiiiiii. Not for the symbols 1 and 0 in that order.
So if I said “that’s ten”, I would be looking at “1010”
If I were to send a “0010” over an interface as a test for example, I would say: “now I’m sending two. Are you recieving two?”
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Every number system is base 10.
Binary is base 1+1. Ternary is base 2+1. Octal is base 7+1. Decimal is base 9+1. Duodecimal is base B+1. Hexadecimal is base F+1.
I like this alot.
Based.
