layout: post title: "10 Kinds of People" subtitle: "... and some 7 billion more kinds." We've all read the joke. > There are 10 types of people in the world... Those who understand > binary and those who don't." Or the one people who pride themselves to be a bit more nerdy than the nerdy ones prefer: > There are 10 types of people in the world ... Those who understand > hexadecimal and 15 others." There's even a quote about this on [bash.org](http://bash.org/?top). > kow: "There are 10 types of people in the world... those who > understand binary and those who don't." > SpaceRain: That's only 2 types of people, kow. > SpaceRain: STUPID I'll tell you; this SpaceRain dude has a point. In fact, I'd say: ### There are 10 types of people in the world... Those who doesn't know how to communicate a number base properly, and nine types who do. As [xkcd](http://xkcd.com/169/) put it: > Communicating badly and then acting smug when you're misunderstood is > not cleverness. Of course, "In base 2 there are 10 types of people in the world..." isn't very funny, but - in all fairness - the original joke isn't very funny anymore either. However, "There are 010 types of people in the world... Those who can use google to look up octal numbering conventions and 7 others", is a bit funny to my fancy, even if it's a very strange way of classifying people. Maybe we all should just move on from this joke or at least bring it to the next level. I'll end this with a version that is actually funny and which I regret to say I will probably never find the original source of. > "There are 2 types of people in the world... Those who can extrapolate > from incomplete data" Also, I recently added commenting to the blog posts. Please, fill me in on your versions.