Topic: Why do computer scientists get Halloween and Xmas mixed up? (Read 715 times)

weedpharma · Dec 21, 2014, 12:47 pm

Because Oct 31 = Dec 25.

Just read it so thought I would share.

Seasons greetings to all.

Weedpharma

robtillaart · Dec 21, 2014, 12:52 pm

reminds me of

There are 10 kinds of people. those who understand binary notation and those who do not

weedpharma · Dec 21, 2014, 01:21 pm

I have used similar as signature on another totally non computer forum!

Weedpharma

robtillaart · Dec 21, 2014, 05:12 pm

There are several variations like
"There are II kinds of people. those who understand Roman numerics and those who do not"
and besides base 2 you can use any base even unary

JChristensen · Dec 21, 2014, 07:45 pm

There are two kinds of people; those that divide everything into two groups and those that do not.

AWOL · Dec 21, 2014, 09:07 pm

There are two kinds of people; those who can extrapolate from incomplete . . .

Henry_Best · Dec 22, 2014, 05:59 am

Quote from: AWOL on Dec 21, 2014, 09:07 pm

There are two kinds of people; those who can extrapolate from incomplete . . .

Depends on how incom...

westfw · Dec 22, 2014, 10:50 am

us old-timers have recently celebrated both DEC-10 and DEC-20 days :-)

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