10 ways to amuse a geek
1. Make a list of the top 10 ways to amuse a geek.
10. Use binary.
NB There are two types of people in the world.
1. Those who index their arrays starting at 1.H/T Brandon. This was a blast from a past spent amongst calculators and calculus. Now I am a geek of a different kind.
1. Those who index their arrays starting at 0.
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There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary notation and those who don't.
Or, there are 2 types of people in this world: those who divide people into 2 groups and those who don't.
I don't get it. thank goodness :-)
What about those who choose not to index their arrays?
Or have I just shown that I don't get it either?
Of course, you're really in trouble if you're one of those people who indexes their arrays starting at zero, then adopts this as a general purpose counting scheme...
Let's see kiddies, how many apples do we have here? Zero, one, two, three. Three apples!
Not that I would have any first-hand experience of this of course *sheepish grin*
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