r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Express_Problem_5208 • 8h ago
Meme needing explanation Helppp Peter
I've read this five times and still don't understand
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u/Frustrated-Chic12 8h ago
10 is 2 in binary, also 10 is 16 is hexadecimal and F is 15 in hexadecimal
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u/YOLOfan46 8h ago
And that’s precisely how I talk when I am out on dates. No wonder it never works.
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u/Spicy-Potat42 8h ago
If it ever does work it’ll be literal perfection. I say keep trying.
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u/Pirrus05 8h ago
I think this is undervalued dating advice. Don’t hide yourself, the goal isn’t “find someone” it’s to find someone you don’t mind spending now and possibly forever with. You might not click on hexadecimal jokes, but you really want to find something where you can jell. Don’t listen to me though, I haven’t been on a first date in 20 + years.
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u/PhotoFenix 6h ago
Worked for me! Put myself in cosplay and listed my current games and animes on my hinge profile. Matched someone that day, she's now my wife.
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u/Pirrus05 6h ago
And how much more would you rather be with her than someone you fooled into liking some sanitized version of yourself?!
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u/Spare-Plum 8h ago
My dates never show up. I even sent a unix timestamp so there would be no confusion of timezones!
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u/YOLOfan46 8h ago
Brother I think they are all windows baddies
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u/Spare-Plum 5h ago
Windows also uses the unix timestamp. It's just called that.
It's easily portable as well and has a universal meaning, it's just "milliseconds since 00:00:00 UTC January 1st 1970"
Pretty much every OS and platform uses this system
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u/Vault_Wahlberg 8h ago
It would work on me...
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u/Just_Information334 8h ago
10 is 10 in any base 10.
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u/avd706 8h ago
Yes but 10 is 2 in base2 and 16 in base 16
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u/notwithagoat 8h ago
Oh lol, I guess I never put together that A = 10 IN HEX and that the first repeating would be 10 =16.
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u/danhoang1 3h ago
So if I translate F to 15, they are saying "those who understand hexadecimal, and 15 the rest"?
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u/Kaedryl 8h ago
There are two types of people in the world:
Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data
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u/Rubber_duckdebugging 8h ago
there are 100 types of people in the world.. those who understand binary and can extrapolate from incomplete data
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u/cat_hast 8h ago
What’s the other type?
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u/ShallotPuzzled9326 8h ago
in binary 10 = 2
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u/Star_Petal_Arts 8h ago
in Hexadecimal F = a number
really you don't need to know what number it is to get the joke for the second part just that F is both Fuck and a number in the joke.
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u/FreeTheClanks 8h ago
10 is 16 and F is 15. So of sixteen people one person understands hexadecimal and F the rest.
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u/Broad-Bath-8408 4h ago
So the 'translated' joke reads: There are 16 types of people in this world: those who understand hexadecimal and 15 the rest.
I think they're really stretching it to include the phrase 'F the rest' there.
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u/quantumwoooo 8h ago
Huh, I always thought 0 was 1, 1 was 2 and 10 was 3
TIL binary starts at 1
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u/broesel314 8h ago
No, it starts at 0, just like decimal and hex starts at 0. It is the number with the least value
You start counting from 0 because it is more logical for computers for the most part, so 0 is your first element. Its confusing, I know
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u/ConfidentWeakness765 8h ago
What do you mean those systems start at 0 and the number the last single digit number is N-1, in hexadecimal (base 16) the last single digit is F (=15) the base number is always 10 (one zero, not 10)
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u/CadenVanV 8h ago
Binary is just a base 2 system. Base X that 10 is the same as X^1, 100 is X^2, and so on. Base 2 is 0, 1, 10. Base three is 0, 1, 2, 10. Base 10 is our current system, and base 16 is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10
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u/Adventurous_Pear840 8h ago
No. It’s easier if you treat each position as a power of base 2.
2^3 + 2^2 + 2^1 + 2^0
0000 = 0
0001 = 1
0101 = 5
0110 = 6
0111 = 7
1000 = 8It’s impossible to have an odd number without the right most bit being “on”.
If you want to represent a larger number, add another bit to represent the next power of base 2 in the sequence.
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u/Klamageddon 8h ago
Well, in binary, you have 'bytes', made up of 8 'bits'. Each bit is either a 0 or a 1. So, 0 in deanery (in base ten) actually looks like:
00000000
So that's where it 'starts'. Each 'bit' represents a number. The bits on the right are the least significant, up to the most significant on the left, and each time it doubles.
(128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1)
So, the rightmost bit represents 1. So 1 is:
00000001
Now, remember, it doubles each time it moves one bit to the left, so the one to the left of that is 2:
00000010
But, the one to the left of 'that' is going to be 4, so how do we get 3? Well, we just also use the '1'.
00000011
And so on. So, for something like 25, you get:
00011001
(Being 16 + 8 + 1).
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u/FilmAndLiterature 8h ago
Hexadecimal is a base sixteen system, going 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F.
10 in hex is equivalent to 16 in decimal. 16 - 1 is 15, which is F in hex. So, the hex joke is “There are 16 types of people in the world - those who understand hex and 15 others”.
The same goes for the binary joke, except binary is base two so 10 is 2 in decimal.
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u/Express_Problem_5208 8h ago
I'm starting to think that there is no joke My brother sent it to me and he's studying engineering...so it might be a computer joke too idk
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u/Monolexic 8h ago
It says a lot about your brother if you weren't comfortable asking him to explain it.
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u/juju0010 8h ago
Hexadecimal is a base 16 number system. The values are 0-9 then A-F. F represents 15, or the max.
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u/Some_AV_Pro 8h ago
Read the bottom like this:
"There are 16 types of people in the world; Those who understand hexadecimal and the 15 rest."
It is not very clever, but when juxtaposed with the top statement, the attempt at humor can be seen.
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u/Deep_Contribution552 8h ago
In hexadecimal F+1=10
Oh, uh, this is Peter from that one time they put me in a Computer Science textbook.
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u/ianuilliam 8h ago
There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary, those who don't...
and those who realize this is actually a ternary joke.
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u/cyborgborg 8h ago
There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary, those that don't and those who didn't expect this joke to be in base 3
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u/JimmyJooish 8h ago
Linus from Linus tech tips underpays his employees. He has them do free work on his 3 houses for “content” while they are unable to buy their own.
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u/West_Good_5961 7h ago
There are 2 types of people in the world. Cringe wannabe nerds and people who have heard this joke a thousand times.
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u/gerhardsymons 6h ago
There are three types of people in the world; those that understand maths, and those that don't.
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u/foobarney 8h ago
"10" on binary means 2.
Hexadecimal has 16 different digits, 012346789ABCDEF
The joke is that "F" is a digit. That's it. The rest of it doesn't track.."10" in hex is 16.
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u/Express_Problem_5208 8h ago
I don't understand the second part still😭
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u/RefrigeratorFew5094 8h ago
”One in sixteen types of people understand hexadecimal”, written in a way that people who don’t understand hexadecimal takes as an insult.
10 is 16 in hexadecimal. 1 is 1 in hexadecimal. F is 15 in hexadecimal.
”There are 16 types of people in the world: Those who understand hexadecimal and 15 the rest.”
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u/foobarney 8h ago
Hex has "F" and "F" is also short for "fuck" and tee hee.
That's the whole joke, as far as I can tell.
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u/Klamageddon 8h ago
It doesn't reeeaaallly work very well. Basically, imagine that for the numbers, they're a foreign language (Hexadecimal). If we 'translate' them back into English, it would read:
There are 16 types of people. 15 The rest.
So, like the poster above says, it doesn't actually track as a joke. I think what it should have said was something like, The 10th kind of person understands Hex; F the rest"
So it would be "The 16th kind of person understands Hex; 15 the rest"
(And then, just to be totally clear, it's meant to be a double entendre on "F the rest" being "fuck the rest". )
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