• stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    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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        5 hours ago

        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.

        1. 1
        2. 10
        3. 11

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

        1. 1
        2. 2
        3. 3
        4. 4
        5. 5
        6. 6
        7. 7
        8. 8
        9. 9
        10. A
        11. B
        12. C
        13. D
        14. E
        15. F
        16. 10

        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.