Sent by a coworker. I don't get it...


Q. Why do computer geeks confuse Halloween with Christmas?

A. Because Oct 31 = Dec 25

 

You got me there.

 

its a math joke. look at it again.

(hint: think base8 for oct and base10 for dec - get it?)

 

I don't have the energy to figure it out, but I think it has to do with Hexadecimal numbers.

 

Okay, base 8 is Octal and 31 in base 8 is (8x3 + 1) or 25 in base 10 (Decimal).

 

Thanks! I see... Oct for Octal, Dec for Decimal.. Octal 31 = 25. Decimal 25 = 25. Hahhaaa.. Jerry Seinfeld should use one this in his standup act!

 

funny never heard that joke

Octal is the counting system that goes 0-7 (base 8). 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10,11,...76,77,100,...
Decimal is what the normal world uses, 0-9.
Hexidecimal, not in the joke, is 0-F (base 16). 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F,10,...9F,A0,...FF, 100,...

To convert octal to decimal, multiply each place in the octal number by the corresponding decimal power of 8. 3x8^1 + 1x8^0 = 3x8 + 1x1 = 24 + 1 = 25.

 

I gotta about a million of these from my notebooks from college....my compter science classmates would think of all these to stump each other.......how funny we used to think that was, and to look back see myself as a class geek bothers me so.

Maybe I should dig through the boxes in the basement to get the notebooks.

 

1000101

my fav is the shirt that says "Do you 1000101?"

 

Somehow, I doubt that anyone who got it would be interested.