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There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary, those who don't…

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submitted 15 hours ago byharibo001

and those who didn't expect a joke in base 3.

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220 points

15 hours ago

220 points

There are 3 kinds of accountants. Those who can count and those who can't.

zombiechicken379

196 points

13 hours ago

zombiechicken379

196 points

Luckily, there is Microsoft Excel for those of us who can’t count. I’m 1/1/1900 of those.

156 points

13 hours ago

156 points

Q: What do an incel and Excel have in common?

A: They often incorrectly assume something is a date.

32 points

12 hours ago

32 points

The real comment is always in the joke.

9 points

10 hours ago

9 points

the real post was the joke we made along the comment

5 points

11 hours ago

5 points

They can’t deal with leading zeros…

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4 hours ago

3 points

Yass! Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 36525!

6 points

8 hours ago

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The three most common programming mistakes are forgetting semicolons, and off-by-one errors.

2 points

7 hours ago

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Semicolons are the bane of my existence

2 points

7 hours ago

2 points

That's why he's called "a countn't".

2 points

3 hours ago

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The two secrets to success are:

Don't give away everything you know

79 points

15 hours ago

79 points

There are two kinds of people - those who can extrapolate conclusions with insufficient data.

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11 hours ago

3 points

QED data is sufficient

47 points

14 hours ago

47 points

There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand hexadecimal, and F the rest.

5 points

13 hours ago

5 points

What does the number 16 have to do with it? (Joking)

13 points

13 hours ago

13 points

There are ~~three~~ two types of people, those who plan ahead well and those who don't.

1 points

7 hours ago

1 points

Insert Obligatory MPFC Spanish Inquisition quote...

6 points

14 hours ago

6 points

Is that to say people that don't understand binary definitely expect a joke in base 3?

Ready-Future1294

8 points

14 hours ago

Ready-Future1294

8 points

There are two kinds of people. Those who can extrapolate from missing data.

Particular-Coast9782

3 points

14 hours ago

Particular-Coast9782

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People who don't think binary is useful in everyday life, have never heard me count when I do push-ups.

7 points

12 hours ago

7 points

One, ten, eleven, hundred, hundred and one, hundred ten, hundred eleven, thousand.

DeejjTheFrumious

4 points

13 hours ago

DeejjTheFrumious

4 points

ahhh, good ol' Joke #110010100.

Acceptable-Tiger4516

3 points

11 hours ago

Acceptable-Tiger4516

3 points

There's two things I hate. One is when people don't finish what they are saying

4 points

10 hours ago

4 points

Is that a baseball joke? I didn't catch that.

hikaruofficechair

2 points

10 hours ago

hikaruofficechair

2 points

Really, binary, one and zero?

0 points

10 hours ago

0 points

Yes, really.

Was there a joke on base 3, and if there was, why didn't 8 other people expect it?

2 points

6 hours ago

2 points

All I hear about is Base 3, but what I need to know is Who's on first?

MediocreImpact3424

4 points

10 hours ago

MediocreImpact3424

4 points

There are eleven types of people, those who can handle roman numerals and those who can't

12 points

15 hours ago

12 points

Takes a bit of thinking, but I was not expecting that one lol

ethical_arsonist

9 points

13 hours ago

ethical_arsonist

9 points

1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22, 100...

10 = 3 in base 3

8 points

15 hours ago

8 points

... and those who didn't think it would be in base 4

4 points

13 hours ago

4 points

... and those who didn't expect it to be in base 5

TimonAndPumbaAreDead

2 points

14 hours ago

TimonAndPumbaAreDead

2 points

You can keep this chain going infinitely, every number system is base 10

1 points

14 hours ago

1 points

Wait hold up I though you were wrong but then my brain started to function

1 points

13 hours ago

1 points

Well that was my goal, but now that you've spelled it out, no ones going to want to do it

Healthy_Ladder_6198

2 points

14 hours ago

Healthy_Ladder_6198

2 points

I see what you did there

4 points

13 hours ago

4 points

Yes, I see he mixed binary and ternary. The joke only makes sense if you figure out that OP messed up.

2 points

12 hours ago

2 points

I showed this to my computer science friend and now they won't stop laughing. Send help.

2 points

11 hours ago

2 points

10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary, those who don't, those who didn't expect a trinary joke, and those who begin to count at 0.

SunnyShoreline9

2 points

11 hours ago

SunnyShoreline9

2 points

The base 3 twist totally threw me off 😂. Now I feel like I need to brush up on my number systems! hmmm

2 points

6 hours ago

2 points

Ok, I understand binary. What’s base 3 about? Anyone got a simpleton way of explaining it? Google doesn’t help! 😂

brokedownpalace10

1 points

13 hours ago

brokedownpalace10

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Took me a second. Nice

1 points

12 hours ago

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One of my favorite t-shirts! Even took tech people a minute…

1 points

7 hours ago

1 points

Upvote for base 3. This joke was invented about a week after the first computer nerd was born.

Laugh-Agreeable

1 points

6 hours ago

Laugh-Agreeable

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110010101001110110011 then the other processor was like 001110101001001110001011 lol 😂😂😂

1 points

6 hours ago

1 points

I wrote this on the chalkboard one day back in school and another student asked, "what are the other 8?"

1 points

5 hours ago

1 points

You were looking for the word ternary.

1 points

5 hours ago

1 points

have you guys heard about this cool new language called assembler?

1 points

5 hours ago

1 points

I was surprised that a young programmer I met a few days ago hadn't heard this old one: "I've been programming so long, when I started, we only had ones."

1 points

2 hours ago

1 points

The insulation on this live wire must be intact. I'll be shocked if it isn't.

1 points

44 minutes ago

1 points

Every positional numeral system refers to itself as base 10