How do people have a meme for every situation?
You couldn’t even write “base 4” when using base 3+1
There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don’t.
And those who don’t know this joke is in ternary.
there are two kinds of people, those who can extrapolate from incomplete data
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.
More like in base 1010 or base 10
More like in base 10 or base 10
Exactly! And don’t forget about hexadecimal aka base 10
Yeah I doubt non-programmers would catch that.
Yeah, always bothered me that we don’t refer to them by their highest digit. That would make them unambiguous.
It’s not like “base 0” was getting used anyways
Then you would need an unique symbol for every possible number
But are there many scenarios where you don’t already need that anyways, just for writing out the digits of a number in the given base?
I mean, I can imagine a scenario where you might talk about base 420 on a theoretical level, without explicitly counting up until 418, 419, 420 (as e.g. Ϡ, Ϣ, 10). But honestly, you could even still refer to that as “Base 419” and it would still be fairly obvious what you mean, since you are using multiple digits rather than just one. I guess, you could also write it as “Base 4199” (so with a subscript 9 to represent what we normally call “Base 10”), if you want to be precise about it.
Both work because the scale is 1-10. Binary just has fewer intermediate steps. Nobody is a binary 7.
Split the difference, it’s octal.
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
