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[challenge entry] Paint + Bad Joke = abortion


And it's christmassy...

From the Explain Stuff With Maths challenge. See all 249 entries (closed)

(a man called donkey has been away for too long, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:03, archived)
# Yay a maths thing I understand
:D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:04, archived)
# yay
didnt know whether this was more of a computer programmer thing than a maths thing but then I thought that half the compo entries technically arent maths either
(a man called donkey has been away for too long, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:06, archived)
# I dont get it
Im not geeky enough :(
(I helped save b3ta! epiphany coming live from sweden, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:08, archived)
# Decimal 25 = Octal 31
:D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:10, archived)
# Wtf is octal?
(I helped save b3ta! epiphany coming live from sweden, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:20, archived)
# base 8
so 31 is 8x3 + 1x1
(a man called donkey has been away for too long, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:22, archived)
# oh..... hmmmm.....
(I helped save b3ta! epiphany coming live from sweden, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:23, archived)
# Base 8
Hexadecimal is base 16 and Binary is base 2
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:23, archived)
# I like maths
(I helped save b3ta! epiphany coming live from sweden, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:24, archived)
# denary is baase 10
:)
(I helped save b3ta! Rev. Jesse. broke his ankle, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:00, archived)
# Hello Simon you big silly *hugs*
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:22, archived)
# Lets count!
Dec
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Oct
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 30 31
(I helped save b3ta! Rev. A-MOL is lurking around these parts again, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:38, archived)
# Imagine humans
were born with 8 fingers (e.g. Norfolk) and how it would change maths.
(I helped save b3ta! Rev. A-MOL is lurking around these parts again, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:39, archived)
# The man with 2 brains would be different
"You've cooked her sevens!"
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:44, archived)
# *Counts Fingers*
4 on each hand = 8
2 Thumbs.

8 would seem to be the non-Norfolk number.
How many have you got ?
Weirdo !
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:25, archived)
# Norfolk people have 8 fingers on each hand
so they would work in Hexadecimal except that their alphabet only runs to A, E, O and R
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:32, archived)
# Incorrect !
Norfolk Folk have Six Toes On each hand.

People from 'The Black Country' (Wolverhampton, Dudley etc.) have a strange number of fingers, but can't count at all.
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:37, archived)
# haha
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:39, archived)
# I've just spent a year in Naaaaaaaaaaaaaarfark
And previously spent 9 long months on the roof of the Merry Hell Centre in Doooooodley.
So I know Stuff !
I'm now in Essex Innit.
*Gets About*
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:47, archived)
# I don't get it
I'm not geeky enough :)
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:21, archived)
# That's nothing to be proud of
BEN
(I helped save b3ta! epiphany coming live from sweden, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:26, archived)
# I'm geeky enough to understand this joke but
nowhere near geeky enough to be able to use Octal or Hexadecimal in any practical application. I only understand this becuase I did Computer Programming way back when PCs were the new thing and only one student had rich enough parents to be able to buy a PC AT all this was pre-pentium. I don't want to say more as it makes me feel old :D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:36, archived)
# PC AT eh?
In our day it was a Z80b.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:50, archived)
# BBC Micro in my day
Z80's were the new fangled stuff
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:52, archived)
# Thinking Engine number 1 in my day
/unmasks himself as Charlie Babbage
(a man called donkey has been away for too long, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:53, archived)
# hehe I'm glad people are older than me but I doubt it
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 18:55, archived)
# You don't look a day over 30*


*unashamed pandering
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:06, archived)
# Thank you :D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:09, archived)
# You should be honoured
I normally only talk to cats.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:17, archived)
# haha
question is do they talk back?
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:21, archived)
# Only when they feel like it
Aloof Bastards !
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:40, archived)
# I love cats and yet they don't love anybody
except when they want something they know precisely how to manipulate humans.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:44, archived)
# As an Apprentice in 1978
Our offices had Commodore PETs with an integral monitor and separate Bloody Big Floppy drives.

I built a Sinclair ZX80 from a kit in 1980 (?) - It didn't work so I sent it back and got a pre-built and working one as a replacement.
To the best of my knowledge - no-one ever managed to get a home built one to work.

I am 47.
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:33, archived)
# You are older than me then but only by 4 years
This makes me happy :D

We ought to start a B3ta Derby & Joan club :D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:38, archived)
# Can I be
Joan ?
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:48, archived)
# You can be whatever you want to be :D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:50, archived)
# Oh !
In that case I'll be a Multi-Millionaire Sex God then.

*Awaits Transformation*




*Senses Disappointment Looming*
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 19:59, archived)
# a Multi-Millionaire Sex God named Joan
if you want to be a sex godess called Joan you can take over from Joan Collins although I thinks she may well be less of a sex godess and less of a millionaire than before.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 20:14, archived)
# Transforming into a Laydeee
Would be a step too far !
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 21:18, archived)
# I'm so old my first computer drawing
was done in BASIC using punch cards - about 2000 cards to do a simple CAD plot...
(I helped save b3ta! tubaman, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 21:16, archived)
# I remember we had a tour of a university
to show us a punch card machine in action it looked dated even in 1984
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 21:22, archived)
# When I graduated in '77 punch cards were still expected to be used for at least 10 more years.
We had an industrial design project to improve the punch card reader, a prize was offered by a local manufacturer (fishing for cheap design ideas, I think.)

When I worked in a Silicon Valley design consulting office (after graduation) I had a lot of projects with computer peripherals that would be obsolete in months after they were made - difficult to keep ahead of the game!
(I helped save b3ta! tubaman, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 22:08, archived)
# That's fantastic
(mingeswingers, Sun 27 Dec 2009, 3:17, archived)