Base Number Jokes Explained - Numberphile
Not all jokes are in base 10... More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ With thanks to Audible - http://www.audible.com/numberphile (book details below) More jokes explained...
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-There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't. MATT PARKER: OK, it doesn't really work when it's said. But written down, the joke kind of holds. Because if I do a 1 and then a 0, that looks like the number 10. Because you expect it to be a normal base 10 number. However, if this is in binary, then this is our units column. That's our twos column. And so this actually equals 2 in base 10. And so you expect it to be 10, but it's not. It's 2, and that's the joke. There are actually two types of people. Those who knew this was binary, and those who didn't. -There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who didn't exp...
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-There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't. MATT PARKER: OK, it doesn't really work when it's said. But written down, the joke kind of holds. Because if I do a 1 and then a 0, that looks like the number 10. Because you expect it to be a normal base 10 number. However, if this is in binary, then this is our units column. That's our twos column. And so this actually equals 2 in base 10. And so you expect it to be 10, but it's not. It's 2, and that's the joke. There are actually two types of people. Those who knew this was binary, and those who didn't. -There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who didn't exp...
