Noob questions about Python

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Fri Oct 19 10:43:07 EDT 2007


On 2007-10-19, Hendrik van Rooyen <mail at microcorp.co.za> wrote:
> "Arnaud Delobelle" <arno....email.com> wrote:
>
>> In binary 2 is 10.  When you multiply by 10, you shift all your digits
>> left by 1 place.
>> When you multiply by 10**n (which is 1 followed by n zeroes), you
>> shift all your digits left by n places.
>
> I read somewhere:
>
> Only 1 person in 1000 understands binary.
> The other 111 don't have a clue.

There are only 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary
and those who don't.

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