[BALUG-Talk] 10 types

[Rick Moen]

At yesterday's BALUG meeting, someone hauled out an old chestnut:  

   There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary 
   and those who don't.   -- Unknown


I mentioned that there were a couple of responses to that, that I had
converted to .signature files.  The first was by a poster named Ron
Fabre on the Linux Users of Victoria (Melbourne) mailing list (whose
comment I .sigged):


--
Cheers,                 There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who
Rick Moen               know ternary, those who don't, and those who are now
rick@linuxmafia.com     looking for their dictionaries.  -- Ron Fabre
McQ!  (4x80)

Being also on that mailing list, I couldn't help doing meta-commentary:

--
Cheers,   There are 10 types of people in this world, those who know quaternary,
Rick Moen those who only recently figured out Ron Fabre's "ternary" .sig, those
          who're completely confused, and those who hate self-referential jokes.



I also like:

   There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who can extrapolate
   from incomplete data

and 

   There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand
   hexadecimal and f the rest.

and 

   Q. Why do mathematicians confuse Halloween and Christmas?
   A. Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.