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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 27 points 4 months ago (5 children)

there's a base n joke somewhere in there

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That means something totally different in Louisiana than you intended...

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 8 points 4 months ago

If you say base "10", what does that mean? You'd have to know the base that "10" was meant to be in. It could be binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal, any number. It does not even need to be a natural number, you can use negative numbers, fractional numbers, negative fractional numbers, irrational numbers, even complex numbers as a base.

Base 10 does mean nothing and everything.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.

[–] 1dan@mastodon.social 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

@EvilBit @lurch ... and those who didn't see a trinary joke coming.

[–] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And those that didn't see a quaternary joke coming

And those that didn't see a quinary joke coming

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[–] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And those that didn't see a quaternary joke coming

And those that didn't see a quinary joke coming

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[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

There's also a Spinal Tap joke.