Monday, February 18, 2008

My 10 cents worth

OK, so I realize that many of you did not get my last post because you are used to the decimal numbering system. Let me explain briefly how the binary system (which is the basic building blocks for computers and everything else digital) works. In binary, there are only two digits (0 and 1), no other digits are allowed as opposed to the decimal system, which uses 10 digits (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9).
Here is a short chart showing a decimal value followed by it's binary equivalent:

Decimal => Binary
0 => 0
1 => 1
2 => 10
3 => 11
4 => 100
5 => 101
etc => etc

So, "10" represents TEN in decimal but in binary it represents TWO.

Therefore, my last post, when read by someone who thinks in binary would say this:
"There are TWO kinds of people in the World, those who think in binary and those who don't"

If you read it thinking in decimal, which you most likely did, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

So my last post, which I actually find quite humorous (but I may be the only one), doesn't translate well for most of the known World.

And there you have it.