But he just ordered 6. Rookie mistake.
That’s the German 6!
I’m German and I didn’t know we can count to 720 with our hands…
!Explanation: An exclamation mark marks factorial, and 6 factorial is 720.!<
Looks like 12 to me
… Maybe.
It really depends on, which is the most significant bit… I mean finger.
Most significant digit?
This could have ended up very badly if where only two beers.
Because they would have to fight for the missing beer or because they would have to fight for the remaining two?
An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar…
A quantum mechanic walks into a bar.
He also walks out of the bar.
At the same time.
A temporal traveller walks into a bar.
A temporal traveller walks into a bar.
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Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks, “Do all of you want a beer?”
“I don’t know”
“I don’t know”
“Yes”
Oh this is a good one
These logic problems reminds me of those Ted-ED riddles.
(anyone here watched Ted-ED videos? its not just me being weird right?)
I wish they’d post them more than once a year these days…
“Would you possibly want a beer out of three?”
“Yes.”
“There are now only two possible beers left. Would you like to change to another beer?”
“YES!”
The old Monty Beerhall problem!
It looks like the way to ask for 2 beers would be quite offensive.
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Endianness matters quite a lot in this situation
There 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who count in binary, and those who dont
*crying in IPv4 subnet calculations
…and those who didn’t expect this joke to be in ternary
Surprise trinary!
Ternary?
That’s tertiary to you, pal.
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Never ask for 2 beers though.
ok sign with middle finger…
my more practical finger binary system would have op show 6 beers. 3 beers would be thumb and forefinger. System is digits forward to enemy have missing fingers be 0, raised 1.
Glad he picked up another friend. Ordering only two was getting him into a lot of trouble.
Huh, why? Only four would be a Problem. Even worse, 132.
In the image he isn’t using his thumb to count, so 2 would be the middle finger.
Why would you count with only 4 fingers when the hand has 5?
I think it’s because in the UK they start counting (regularly) with the index finger, so the regular binary two would look unnatural in context
that's six by my count
0 ✊
1 👍
2 ☝️
3 👆
4 🖕
Binary on fingers really comes into its own when you need to order 1023 beers over heavy background noise. Except when there’s a mix-up and you end up with -1 beer.
This sounds like xkcd alt text
It’s easy to order 1 beer and end up with 31.
Jokes on you, I already owed one beer!
Off by one error
Thats what I thought at first
So, the minimum number of anything you can order would be zero fingers or 1…
Nah it’s meant to be binary. 11 would be 3. Although theoretically he should be holding up his pinky and ring finger.
He must work on a big endian machine.
The thumb counts too so it should be 6
There’s a beer in Australia called XXXX.
The joke is it’s for those who can’t spell BEER, but it’s also for those who can’t count, because if they could, it’d be XL.
It almost works better without the quote
