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#94880 02/12/03 03:00 PM
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thanks, everybody. very enlightening, keep going


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There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.


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No, no, Rube. There's *three kinds of people; those that count and those that don't count.


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There are ten types of people in this world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Yes, but. We write a one and a zero in binary, which looks like 10, but it's still "two," meaning successor-of-one, no matter what base we use. Binary writes "1, 10, 11, 100," but those numerals still mean "one, two, three, four".


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wofa, sure and it should have been written There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

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There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
NOW I get it! :-)



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Damn. I shouldn't have tried to write it so fast. I've edited it above to make more sense.


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no, now you've edited it and made it more confusing!



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I would NOT say, "Due to climactic conditions, we're supposed to get a snowstorm this evening."


I hope you wouldn't, although it would be interesting to see (or experience) a climax that altered the weather.


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it would be interesting to see (or experience) a climax that altered the weather.





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