There 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who count in binary, and those who dont
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*crying in IPv4 subnet calculations
...and those who didn't expect this joke to be in ternary
Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks, "Do all of you want a beer?"
"I don't know"
"I don't know"
"Yes"
These logic problems reminds me of those Ted-ED riddles.
(anyone here watched Ted-ED videos? its not just me being weird right?)
I wish they'd post them more than once a year these days....
"Would you possibly want a beer out of three?"
"Yes."
"There are now only two possible beers left. Would you like to change to another beer?"
"YES!"
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Oh this is a good one
that's six by my count
0 ✊
1 👍
2 ☝️
3 👆
4 🖕
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.
This sounds like xkcd alt text
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Reminds me of this:
Pretty sure he's ordering 6 in this image.
You mean 7 beers.
he's ordering 7, I think, if you count the thumb.
I don't see it... Two fingers and thumb make VI.
I actually forgot about Roman numerals for a second.
It looks like the way to ask for 2 beers would be quite offensive.
Endianness matters quite a lot in this situation
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That is actually 5, in Latin.
- ✊
- 👍
- ☝️
- 👆
- 🖕
- 5
- ✌️
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 🤙
- 🤘
- 🤟
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 👌
- 29
- 30
- ✋
🖕beer please
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Sir that is more beers than there are particles in the Universe.
Customer is always right
Never ask for 2 beers though.
ok sign with middle finger....
my more practical finger binary system would have op show 6 beers. 3 beers would be thumb and forefinger. System is digits forward to enemy have missing fingers be 0, raised 1.
An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar...
A quantum mechanic walks into a bar.
He also walks out of the bar.
At the same time.
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Glad he picked up another friend. Ordering only two was getting him into a lot of trouble.
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"Are you dislexic?!"
"No I'm just representing the number three in binary." 😂
There’s a beer in Australia called XXXX.
The joke is it’s for those who can’t spell BEER, but it’s also for those who can’t count, because if they could, it’d be XL.
He should be sticking out his thumb and index finger. With the index and middle finger up he's showing 6.
Perhaps the bartender is offended since the programmer is giving them the V sign?
It almost works better without the quote
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