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Ben Lovy
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There are 10 types of people...

Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

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willsmart

There are 10 people in the world, 10% of them understand number bases.

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Yoandy Rodriguez Martinez

Actually there are 10 types of people

1) those who understand binary.
2) Those who don't
3) Those who understand Gray Code

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Ben Lovy

Heh, I even learn something on the joke posts

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Jason C. McDonald

My favorite version has always been:

There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who don't specify base when making jokes.

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Serak Shiferaw

what about the quantum thing? :)

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Marco Fiset • Edited

This is so mind-bogglingly good.

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Ben Lovy

Hah! True enough.

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Ben Halpern

Ha, I love this

 
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Marco Fiset

Allow me to steal it and tweet about it then :)