Wednesday, 12 November 2008

There are 10 types of people

It’s that rarest of all things – a joke about number bases

There are 10 types of people – those that understand binary and those that don’t.

Hahahahaha – brilliant. Tell you friends, write it on all your Christmas cards, put it on your e-mail signature – spread that joy. Sadly it doesn’t work quite as well in hexadecimal

There are 1A types of people – 1 that understands hexadecimal and 25 that don’t

However I’m convinced it can be made to work in other bases. I’m going to apply for an EU grant to study the application of this joke to other mathematical systems. If they’ll fund the Large Hadron Collider I’m sure they’ll fund this similarly important work.

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