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Saw this variation of the classical nerd joke, which I thought was
ingenuous:
There are 11 types of programmers: Those who understand Gray code and
those who don't.
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- Warp
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On 15 Oct 2008 13:52:56 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tag povrayorg> wrote:
> Saw this variation of the classical nerd joke, which I thought was
>ingenuous:
>
> There are 11 types of programmers: Those who understand Gray code and
>those who don't.
<groan> This is the night for memories. Nice one! :)
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Regards
Stephen
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There are 1 types of programmers. Those who understand zero based arrays,
and those who do not.
;-)
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Warp wrote:
> There are 11 types of programmers: Those who understand Gray code and
> those who don't.
Heh, that's cute. Now we just need somebody to add phinary...
This ranks alongside that little gem,
"I'm perfectly OK. Look: 2 + 2 = 10. In base 4 I'm *fine*!"
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http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On 15 Oct 2008 13:52:56 -0400, Warp wrote:
> There are 11 types of programmers: Those who understand Gray code and
> those who don't.
There are 10.010000010010000000010000100001000100010000000010000100000001...
types of mathematicians: Those who understand base-(squareroot of 2)
and those who don't.
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Joel Yliluoma - http://iki.fi/bisqwit/
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Joel Yliluoma wrote:
> There are 10.010000010010000000010000100001000100010000000010000100000001...
> types of mathematicians: Those who understand base-(squareroot of 2)
> and those who don't.
I think 10.01 (base-phi) is more fun.
And I *still* think the cute thing about binary is that there are *2*
types of people, and we have base *2* numbers. ;-)
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Invisible wrote:
> I think 10.01 (base-phi) is more fun.
Or perhaps 011 (Fibonacci code).
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:09:40 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> Joel Yliluoma wrote:
>
>> There are 10.010000010010000000010000100001000100010000000010000100000001...
>> types of mathematicians: Those who understand base-(squareroot of 2)
>> and those who don't.
>
> I think 10.01 (base-phi) is more fun.
That would be 10.0011, wouldn't it?
Still, rather neat.
Hmm, actually 10.01 gives the same result.
bisqwit@chii:~$ bc -l
x=(1+sqrt(5))/2;
x^1+x^-3+x^-4
1.99999999999999999999
x^1+x^-2
1.99999999999999999999
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Joel Yliluoma - http://iki.fi/bisqwit/
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>> I think 10.01 (base-phi) is more fun.
>
> That would be 10.0011, wouldn't it?
> Still, rather neat.
>
> Hmm, actually 10.01 gives the same result.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phinary
"A base-φ numeral that includes the digit sequence "11" can always be
rewritten in standard form, using the algebraic properties of the base φ
— most notably that φ+1 = φ2."
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> "A base-φ numeral that includes the digit sequence "11" can always be
> rewritten in standard form, using the algebraic properties of the base φ
> — most notably that φ+1 = φ2."
That should of course be "φ+1 = φ^2".
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