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by dogecoinbase 1239 days ago
As the old joke goes, there are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary... and nine others.
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I like the "those that understand ternary, those that don't and those that mistake is for binary" version
I like that joke but I guess it only makes sense written? Or how do you say it? "Ten"?

Thinking about it, "there are ten types of people" might be even funnier.

"one zero"
"One zero", by definition, is 'zero'.
That depends. In math, you can say a function f(x) has “one zero” if there exists some element z in the relevant domain such that f(x) = 0 iff x = z. Since z is arbitrary, you can even have the value of z be nonzero. So, “a zero,” in fact, need not actually be 0, and, one can speak of “the zeros of f, so there may be more than “one zero,” none of which are actually 0.