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There are 10 kinds of people in the world:

Those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who understand that "10" can represent any number if you change the base.

(Changing joke this to work amusingly for irrational bases like the golden ratio base[1] is something I haven't yet figured out.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio_base



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