[LINK] Points, lines & curves

Kim Holburn kim at holburn.net
Mon Feb 14 08:37:50 AEDT 2011


On 2011/Feb/14, at 12:29 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> THat makes that joke so much funnier if the punchline is supported
> by "Oh, the numbering system is base-3. Silly assumptions made
> by silly computer nerds."

Yeah it was a funny joke the first time I heard it.  I don't actually remember how long ago that was though, but around thirty years ago?

Here's another one:  There are three kinds of people, people who can count and those who can't.

> 
> :-)
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> 
> Adrian
> 
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011, David Boxall wrote:
>> On 13/02/2011 11:45 AM, Kim Holburn wrote:
>>> ...
>>> There aren't three kinds of people. ...
>> Actually, there are 10: those who understand binary and the others.
>> 
>> And some who are extremely literal.
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