Counting Crap

This is not a vulgar sign!

I never knew until I stumbled on this site that The Finger is actually a binary 4, and that we can count to 31 on one hand. Now we can start practising counting to 1023 with two hands. Ha!

Also on the same site are some geek jokes. I like this one:

Why did the programmer always confuse Christmas and Halloween?
Because Oct 31 equals Dec 25.

For the uninitiated, OCT is octal (base 8) and DEC is decimal (base 10), just like binary is base 2 and hexadecimal is base 16. So Oct 31 = 3 * 8 + 1 = 25 in decimal.

Whoever thought of such crap! :D