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
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
Jokes on you, I already owed one beer!
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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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Reminds me of this:
Pretty sure he's ordering 6 in this image.
You mean 7 beers.
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"
"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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These logic problems reminds me of those Ted-ED riddles.
(anyone here watched Ted-ED videos? its not just me being weird right?)
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But he just ordered 6. Rookie mistake.
- ✊
- 👍
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- 👆
- 🖕
- 5
- ✌️
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
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- 🤙
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🖕beer please
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Sir that is more beers than there are particles in the Universe.
Customer is always right
That is actually 5, in Latin.
Off by one error
Thats what I thought at first
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.
Huh, why? Only four would be a Problem. Even worse, 132.
In the image he isn’t using his thumb to count, so 2 would be the middle finger.
Why would you count with only 4 fingers when the hand has 5?
I think it’s because in the UK they start counting (regularly) with the index finger, so the regular binary two would look unnatural in context
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He should be sticking out his thumb and index finger. With the index and middle finger up he's showing 6.
It almost works better without the quote
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.
Didn't realize Tommy Lee Jones was bartending these days
Perhaps the bartender is offended since the programmer is giving them the V sign?
"Are you dislexic?!"
"No I'm just representing the number three in binary." 😂
Could just be European finger counting
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