How to explain binary to this person

D.P. said:
You are correct, 10 is normally interpreted as 2. but it depends on endedness.
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/pedant cap

Well, technically 10 is normally interpreted as ten as we culturally do everything in base10 unless otherwise stated. Hex is a dead giveaway because it contains non integer character codes, but even 10011101110111011111 is a valid base 10 number. Just because it looks like binary, doesn't mean it is.
 
Sliver said:
I know you're not a moron, so I know you know what my initial point was, which was correct. Stop trying to score e-peen points with an audience that doesn't bother to count.
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What the hell? Your in a battle with yourself here buddy as I've no idea why your going off on one? Or why your all guns blazing at me when I'm not alone in this thread?

Did I cross you recently or something?
 
Skeeter said:
What the hell? Your in a battle with yourself here buddy as I've no idea why your going off on one? Or why your all guns blazing at me when I'm not alone in this thread?

Did I cross you recently or something?
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Not another pointless forum fight over nothing. Just forget it binary boy. :rolleyes:
 
Skeeter said:
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand Binary, and those who don't.
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There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who weren't expecting a base three joke

//runs.
 
Have any of you worked with dip switches? You see them on fruit machines and DMX (stage) lights. In the stage light example, they have 'addresses', bit like an IP address range from 1 to 255. This diagram is typically seen on the back of one of these stage lights. Each switch is a 0 or a 1, then you just add up any that are 1's.

So this pictured example has 1+2+32+64 to give DMX address 99.

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| 1 | 2 | 3 |
|10^2|10^1|10^0

Ask him what the first digit represents, hundreds, you have 1 hundred. You have 2 tens, you have 3 digits. One hundred twenty three.

Try to explain to him that it's not 'denary' but rather base 10, and binary is base 2. It's just the sum of multiples of ascending powers of whatever base you are using.
 
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