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To: patton

Good grief, get it right.

Base 2 uses only the digits 0 and 1, it’s also called binary and used in computers. What we write as 2 is represented as 10.

(Hence the computer nerd shirt inscription: “There are 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary and those who don’t.”)

If you use base 3, you have the digits 0, 1 and 2, then 2 + 2 = 11, not 22.


51 posted on 01/20/2009 9:33:15 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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(Hence the computer nerd shirt inscription: “There are 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary and those who don’t.”)

Instead of...

(The Gummint skuul kid's T-shirt inscription: “There are 3 kinds of people, those who can add, and those who can't)

78 posted on 01/21/2009 4:47:05 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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