Sunday, 23 November 2008

In praise of boffins

How many "jokes" only work in written form? Say them outloud and they make less than zero sense. And I can't go there in a weblog without becoming negative, as any mathematician will tell you.
Come to think of it, I am sure I had an experience with negative logs at school. They came in 2 forms as I remember - the type that appeared in a book of log tables for maths class and the others that were whittled into particularly flexible canes.

So how many? Who knows? But I have one for you, if the mathematicians will forgive me.

It is simply the observation that there are 10 types of people in this world - those that understand binary and those that don't.

One for the boffins.

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