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There are two types of people in this world... (Original Post) MrScorpio Feb 2018 OP
+1,000,000! dchill Feb 2018 #1
And those who ... moon ... cheese. dchill Feb 2018 #2
There are 10 types of people in the world PJMcK Feb 2018 #3
I've written a lot of code for eight bit microprocessors. hunter Feb 2018 #4
LOL Gothmog Feb 2018 #5
No, there are three types of people in the world SCantiGOP Feb 2018 #6

hunter

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4. I've written a lot of code for eight bit microprocessors.
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 01:21 PM
Feb 2018

You only need one bit here.

0 represents those who don't understand binary, 1 represents those who do.

In cave man days, back when you had 2048 bits (256 bytes) or less to work with, every bit was precious.

The "10 types of people in the world" statement has an ironic meaning beyond "one-zero-base-two equals two-base-ten."

It evokes all the horrors of off-by-one errors in computing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error

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