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From: Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:32:09
Message-Id: 43660D7B.6060100@mid.email-server.info
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles by Holly Bostick
1 Holly Bostick schrieb:
2 > Dale schreef:
3
4 >> he's trying to say computers can't count.
5
6 No, I'm not.
7
8 > The other joke is similar, but goes like this
9 >
10 > There are 10 kinds of people in the world
11 > Those who understand binary, and those who don't
12 >
13 > ("1" is "yes" in binary language, which only consists of the "letters" 1
14 > and 0, and is the basis of all computer languages, and "0" means "no").
15
16 Interesting explanation :) I always explained that joke, like
17 this: 10 in binary is 2 in decimal. But if you don't know about
18 binary, you read 10 and might think decimal 10. If you think
19 that, than it's kind of strange to only name 2 types of people.
20
21 Alexander Skwar
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>