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Anyone know a good one?


here is one:

there are 10 types of people in the world:
those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who didn't expect this joke to be in base 3.

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one more:

there are 10 types of people in the world:
those who understand hexadecimal and F the rest.

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Originally posted by Zahlanzi
one more:

there are 10 types of people in the world:
those who understand hexadecimal and F the rest.
So a statistician and a physicist went hunting. They saw this 8 point deer and the physicist took a shot, missed by 2 meters to the right.

The statistician took his shot, it went 2 meters to the left.

GOT IT, he says!

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The variation of the first one that I've heard:

There are only three kinds of people in this world, those who can count and those who can't.

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Why is 6 so afraid of 7?

Because 7,8,9.

I didn't get it until I said it out loud.

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A sign on a math instructors classroom wall:


Don't drink and derive....

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I am afraid the only maths joke I know of is:

There are only three kinds of people in this world; Those who can count and those who can't.

-and I got that one from somebody else. So that's three people involved here; me and him.

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many versions of joke but punchline is;
he squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the son of the squaw on the other two hides....

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So the math classmates really respected their professor and on his birthday planted a tree in his name. It was a special tree. It had square roots.

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Why are trees positive?

Because if they were negative they would only have imaginary roots

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An Irish maths joke

What do three oaks equal?

9 (tree + tree + tree)

If a dog poos under each one now what does it equal?

10 (tree and a turd + tree and a turd + tree and a turd)


A computer programmer was sent to the shops by his wife to get a loaf of bread, and if they had eggs he was to get a dozen. He returned with twelve loaves of bread.

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Originally posted by DeepThought
A computer programmer was sent to the shops by his wife to get a loaf of bread, and if they had eggs he was to get a dozen. He returned with twelve loaves of bread.
The wife needs to debug him and try again. A software course might help.

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Did ya hear about the constipated mathematician? Yea he worked the problem out with pencil and paper.