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Nancy1982  +  231615 Fri, 02 Jun 06 12:31 AM

Hello Nona:

Would you explain to me the joke? I read but I don't understand what it meant to say.

Thank you.

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nona the brit  +  231758 Fri, 02 Jun 06 10:48 AM

Binary is a system of counting that uses a base unit of 2 instead of 10. You can actually count with any base unit.

It only uses 0s and 1s and the number 10, in binary code, means 2. Bit hard to explain here briefly, you need to go and look at the link below if you are really interested. The joke is funny if you understand binary, and not if you don't, which is what the joke itself is saying. It's a sort of mathematical pun!

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Anonymous, 3 yr 159 days ago
There are 10 types of jokes: those that require knowledge of binary and those that don't Wink [;)]
Sweary  +  234101 Fri, 09 Jun 06 08:08 AM

binary means 0 and 1;only two states,if it uses to count,it may like this:

0,1,10,11,100,101,............

We often use decimalist :0,1,2,3......

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Anonymous, 3 yr 147 days ago

 Nona The Brit wrote:
There are 10 types of people in this world; those who understand binary and those who don't.

I must have heard that joke 1100100 times!      Smile [:)]

Anonymous, 1 yr 351 days ago

heh this is soooo funny......

ok i'll reveal it to you...

there are 10 types of people in this world those who understand binary (1) and those who don't (0)

the 10 is not ten but 1 and 0......

do you get it now?

heh

Anonymous, 1 yr 267 days ago
and i happen to be 001 of them
Zhao_the_Passerby, 1 yr 256 days ago
There are only three types of people, those who can count, and those who can't.
Anonymous, 1 yr 244 days ago
 sorry but that is not how you count, the first number is *** to the power of 0, so zerro, the second number is *** to the power of 1. And it keeps on going like that, 100 would be *** to the power of 2, so its 4 :)
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