• rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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    25 days ago

    There are 10 types of people in the world: those who know how binary works, those who don’t, and those who didn’t expect this joke to be in ternary

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    There are 10 kinds of people in the world. People who understand binary and people who don’t.

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    My personal top 10 binary numbers are 1000101 and 110100100. 0 and 1 though are my top 10 binary digits.

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      25 days ago

      “binary digits” is an oxymoron. “Digit” implies decimal counting.

      • Poach@lemmy.world
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        Is that why all digital computers use binary?

        This may actually be an example of where a word’s meaning had changed over time. Not sure of the etymology.

        Some random dictionary has “one of the elements that combine to form numbers in a system other than the decimal system” as one of the definitions.

        I spent way too long trying to prove something there…

        • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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          I think it’s because they use discrete numbers instead of varying voltages in analog systems. There have been digital computers built that use base 3.