that's six by my count
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This could have ended up very badly if where only two beers.
There 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who count in binary, and those who dont
*crying in IPv4 subnet calculations
Surprise trinary!
Ternary?
That's tertiary to you, pal.
...and those who didn't expect this joke to be in ternary
Reminds me of this:
Pretty sure he's ordering 6 in this image.
You mean 7 beers.
Binary on fingers really comes into its own when you need to order 1023 beers over heavy background noise. Except when there's a mix-up and you end up with -1 beer.
He should be sticking out his thumb and index finger. With the index and middle finger up he's showing 6.
It looks like the way to ask for 2 beers would be quite offensive.
Endianness matters quite a lot in this situation
- β
- π
- βοΈ
- π
- π
- 5
- βοΈ
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- π€
- π€
- π€
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- π
- 29
- 30
- β
Didn't realize Tommy Lee Jones was bartending these days
So, the minimum number of anything you can order would be zero fingers or 1...
Nah it's meant to be binary. 11 would be 3. Although theoretically he should be holding up his pinky and ring finger.
He must work on a big endian machine.
Glad he picked up another friend. Ordering only two was getting him into a lot of trouble.
Huh, why? Only four would be a Problem. Even worse, 132.
In the image he isnβt using his thumb to count, so 2 would be the middle finger.
Off by one error
Thats what I thought at first
It almost works better without the quote
I think it's more meant to be programming humor. 0=1, 1=2, 2=3, etc
Itβs a Roman numeralβ¦