Saturday, September 20, 2008

Binary Fun

Been to work today... booo and a colleague someone showed me something pretty funny (yeah?):
There are 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Of course I retorted with the question, in the same vein:
How high can one count on ten fingers?
Answers in the comments please.
After work Beccy and I went to Didsbury to a place called "The Art of Tea" on Barlow Moor Road. It's an off-beat tea shop with an off-off-beat bookshop at the back. Despite this the cakes are good, no wait!, fabulous (especially the Lemon Drizzle) and so far we have purchased four books (not all today, I was there on Thursday). Then we went to read in the park, whilst it was still sunny. Matt came down to say hi and play some frisbee and now we're back!

4 Comments:

At September 28, 2008 7:09 AM, Anonymous jonath said...

1023?

 
At October 01, 2008 6:45 PM, Anonymous jonath said...

Well, was I right then? 2^11 - 1 and all that?

 
At October 02, 2008 10:21 PM, Blogger Simon said...

Well, yes... I suppose so. But if you were really dextrous, could you do 3x11 - 1, could you do halves? interesting, no?

 
At October 02, 2008 10:22 PM, Blogger Simon said...

I mean 3^11, obviously... like binary -1, 0 or 1

 

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