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[Dan Cech]

tedd wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 May 2006, tedd wrote:
>>
>>>  Basically, there are 10 types of people, those who understand binary
>>>  and those who don't. :-)
>> Hmmmm, if you want to tell this joke out loud, how do you pronounce "10" ?
> 
> Ten
> 
> It's still "ten" regardless of what the dictionary may say. Ten is 
> not defined by the base 10.
> 
> For example, you don't say "one" is not "one" because it belongs to 
> another base, do you?
> 
> Or, as in the case of base 16, you don't have another pronunciation 
> for "A", do you?
> 
> Such as in:
> 
> 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F,10
> 
> 10 in any number system is still ten.
> 
> tedd


Not exactly.  Ten is merely a name we give to the digit sequence 1 0
when representing a number in base 10.

If you called 10 base 2 Ten, what would you call 1010 base 2?

If you were saying 10 base 2 out loud, you should probably just say Two,
though that kind of defeats the purpose of the joke...

Dan