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Offline PartyIsOver221

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Good sayings or proverbs
« Reply #15 on: September 28, 2011, 08:10:13 PM »
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    • Quote from: Daegus
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    Most of these are wise sayings that I have heard and there are a few new ones.  I don't know who said these first, but here are my contributions:

    Not to decide is to decide.  (So much for claiming to be taking the "prudent course".)



    There are two kinds of people in the world; those who divide things into two groups and those who don't.

    and, its corollary,

    There are ten kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary numbers and those who don't.


    There are eleven persons to the Trinity.


    Is this supposed to be a joke? I don't get it.


    11 persons in the Trinity, in binary speak.

    0011 is the number "3".      0 + 0 + 2 + 1 =  "3"
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    Offline Raoul76

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    « Reply #16 on: September 29, 2011, 03:09:03 AM »
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    • Ambrose Veritatis on Facebook had one I can't get out of my head:  

    "Hot in this life, hot in the next."  
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    « Reply #17 on: September 29, 2011, 04:32:31 AM »
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    • Quote from: PartyIsOver221
    Quote from: Daegus
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    Most of these are wise sayings that I have heard and there are a few new ones.  I don't know who said these first, but here are my contributions:

    Not to decide is to decide.  (So much for claiming to be taking the "prudent course".)



    There are two kinds of people in the world; those who divide things into two groups and those who don't.

    and, its corollary,

    There are ten kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary numbers and those who don't.


    There are eleven persons to the Trinity.


    Is this supposed to be a joke? I don't get it.


    11 persons in the Trinity, in binary speak.

    0011 is the number "3".      0 + 0 + 2 + 1 =  "3"


    1 = 1
    10 = 2
    11 = 3
    100 = 4
    101 = 5
    110 = 6
    111 = 7

    Is that about right?
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    « Reply #18 on: September 29, 2011, 07:36:08 AM »
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    • Clare, yes, that's right, says my pocket calculator.


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    There are eleven persons to the Trinity.


    No, there's a mistake, because the word "eleven" means Arabic numeral and is not equaling the binary "11" but binary "1011".

    If you would have said There are 11 persons... then the 11 could be ambiguous. And that's why there's the "0b" prefix for binary notation, or "0x" for hexadecimal numbering system.

    Yes yes, I know, it was meant as a joke, but... :-)
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