There 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who count in binary, and those who dont
…and those who didn’t expect this joke to be in ternary
that's six by my count
0 ✊
1 👍
2 ☝️
3 👆
4 🖕
Binary on fingers really comes into its own when you need to order 1023 beers over heavy background noise. Except when there’s a mix-up and you end up with -1 beer.
This sounds like xkcd alt text
It’s easy to order 1 beer and end up with 31.
Jokes on you, I already owed one beer!
Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks, “Do all of you want a beer?”
“I don’t know”
“I don’t know”
“Yes”
“Would you possibly want a beer out of three?”
“Yes.”
“There are now only two possible beers left. Would you like to change to another beer?”
“YES!”
The old Monty Beerhall problem!
These logic problems reminds me of those Ted-ED riddles.
(anyone here watched Ted-ED videos? its not just me being weird right?)
I wish they’d post them more than once a year these days…
Just make sure you don’t confuse it with original TED talks. TED talks are the only real ones. If there’s anything added to it like x or ed or w/e, it’s not affiliated. Just FYI
Oh this is a good one
Reminds me of this:
It looks like the way to ask for 2 beers would be quite offensive.
Endianness matters quite a lot in this situation
- ✊
- 👍
- ☝️
- 👆
- 🖕
- 5
- ✌️
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 🤙
- 🤘
- 🤟
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 👌
- 29
- 30
- ✋
🖕beer please
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Sir that is more beers than there are particles in the Universe.
Customer is always right
That is actually 5, in Latin.
Off by one error
Thats what I thought at first
Glad he picked up another friend. Ordering only two was getting him into a lot of trouble.
Huh, why? Only four would be a Problem. Even worse, 132.
Never ask for 2 beers though.
ok sign with middle finger…
my more practical finger binary system would have op show 6 beers. 3 beers would be thumb and forefinger. System is digits forward to enemy have missing fingers be 0, raised 1.
So binary is French? That’s legit 3 in French
Technically, the thumb should be out as well. But yeah, that would totally be read as 3. 🥖🫡
Weird, thumb out is 3 in ASL (a french sign derived language), but thumb in that position reads as a really weird 2 to me
That actually makes sense to me — ASL retains the “thumb = 1” system present in most of Europe.
The programmer is using what I’d call an “Anglo” two. It’s what I grew up with in North America.(see the Inglourious Basterds three finger scene for reference)
This could have ended up very badly if were only two beers.
Because they would have to fight for the missing beer or because they would have to fight for the remaining two?
That’s because of how the number 2 is represented.
It almost works better without the quote
He should be sticking out his thumb and index finger. With the index and middle finger up he’s showing 6.
