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Binary is gone crazy!

#1 – There are only 10 types of people (part I) Following the Impossible Objects – The Simplified Calculator post, a recent commenter on Made By Monkeys cracked the classic:There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don’t.


#2 – “…0110010011100…”Looking on the Internet for a witty riposte, for the above comment – (How did Oscar W. manage before Google?) – I came across this classic “binary joke”:001101101011100110100010100101011001101010101001011110011010110010100101011010010111100110100101But hold your sides, there’s more…


#3 – There are only 10 types of people (part II) Google also provided this variant on a theme, which I didn’t hesitate to reuse:There are only 10 types of people in the world – those who understand ternary, those who don’t, and those who mistake it for binarySo far the total, stood at three. And trust me I searched the whole Internet. All of it, via Google. For at least fifteen minutes. And then the irreplaceable Wikipedia, courtesy of its Mathematical joke article, added some more, by cunningly reaching into the world of hexadecimal…


#4 – Some pictures are worth more that a thousand wordsOur own Alice Caroll was challenged to invent a fourth binary joke, and this picture is what Alice came up with, which has been languishing over on Engineer in Wonderland since January 2011.


#5 – DEAD people and hexadecimalIf only DEAD people understand hexadecimal, how many people understand hexadecimal?57,005.And wait, there’s still more. There’s octal…


#6 – Mathematicians confusing Halloween and ChristmasWhy do mathematicians always confuse Halloween and Christmas?Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.- See more at: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/electro-ramblings/digital-life/the-world-s-largest-collection-of-binary-jokes-2009-04/#sthash.OC9p712v.dpuf

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