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0 (one "zero")
[bar] 20/2%
2 (binary)
[bar] 217/24%
10 (duh!)
[bar] 453/49%
110 (one "ten")
[bar] 7/1%
X (when in Rome)
[bar] 8/1%
? HOME (clearly basic)
[bar] 11/1%
Countdown
[bar] 22/2%
Perfect!
[bar] 87/9%
lO (bad font)
[bar] 36/4%
time to go to bed (looking at my digital watch)
[bar] 59/6%
920 total votes
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Re: When I see "10", I think:
by zentara (Archbishop) on Feb 01, 2012 at 11:11 UTC
      The first thing I did when seeing this poll was to search for Bo Derek.
      You and I, sir, are showing our age. :-)
Re: When I see "10", I think:
by RichardK (Parson) on Feb 01, 2012 at 13:42 UTC

    16, which should have been an option IMHO ;)

      Why not 8? Are we done with octal?


      Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
        Are we done with octal?

        I've been done by octal too many times :)

        I hate that most programming languages insist on interpreting numbers with leading xeros as octal.

        Personally, I've never seen any utility in octal that wasn't better served by hex.


        With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
        Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
        "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
        In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

        The start of some sanity?

      And why didn't you comment on that before it became a poll? :)
Re: When I see "10", I think:
by moritz (Cardinal) on Feb 01, 2012 at 13:47 UTC
Re: When I see "10", I think:
by aplonis (Pilgrim) on Feb 02, 2012 at 14:06 UTC

    Reminds me of college in 1982 when I spent one whole day ferreting out an LC letter L where a One should be amongst reems and reems of greenbar for a Fortran program.

    It was a typo that was hard to break, having been deliberately trained to type LC Ls for One and capital O's for Zero on an IBM Selectric typwriter in my high school typing class ten years earlier and having done it all that time prior to college.

      When you say "LC letter", i think Lewis Carrol letter. Then again, with his games and math, he might have enjoyed our little poll.

        And when I see LC, I think of inductance and capacitance, since I recently helped my step-son out with the odd electronics and software questions while he was at Ryerson. Yep, still remember that stuff from university in the 70's and 80's.

        Alex / talexb / Toronto

        "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

      Why on Earth did they deliberately train you to do that?!

      It's been a good many years since I've even seen a typewriter, but I can't remember them being constrained to the digits 2 to 9. They had 1 and 0 keys. Why not use them?

        Having a separate 1 key was an innovation that came fairly late in the game. Older typewriters didn't have it, and it wasn't until the late 1970s that you could count on it being there. So people were taught to type without it.
Re: When I see "10", I think:
by tokpela (Chaplain) on Feb 01, 2012 at 17:43 UTC
      It needs to go "one louder"...


      Wait! This isn't a Parachute, this is a Backpack!
Re: When I see "10", I think:
by rir (Vicar) on Feb 02, 2012 at 17:04 UTC
    I think \n.
Re: When I see "10", I think:
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 01, 2012 at 11:07 UTC

    Prince Charles saying "IO".


    With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
    Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
    "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
    In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

    The start of some sanity?

      When I see it like that I think of the Enterprise D.
Re: When I see "10", I think:
by jhourcle (Prior) on Feb 03, 2012 at 16:40 UTC

    Time to go to bed?

    I could see 'late for work', but I generally don't go to bed 'til 2300 or later.

Re: When I see "10", I think:
by fisher (Priest) on Feb 01, 2012 at 13:52 UTC
    ... "I need to buy some milk... don't forget to buy a milk... a milk!"
Re: When I see "10", I think:
by cavac (Parson) on Feb 07, 2012 at 17:57 UTC
    "But mine goes to eleven!"
    "You have reached the Monastery. All our helpdesk monks are busy at the moment. Please press "1" to instantly donate 10 currency units for a good cause or press "2" to hang up. Or you can dial "12" to get connected directly to second level support."
Re: When I see "10", I think:
by PhilHibbs (Hermit) on Feb 23, 2012 at 16:12 UTC
    There are 10 kinds of people:
    those who understand binary,
    those who understand Gray code,
    and those who don't.
      This is awesome, I never heard about this before but I'll think of it next time I have to try all combinations of a set of switches, which is more often than you'd think :-D

      -- Time flies when you don't know what you're doing
      Grey code? Is that some sort of American interloper, like the squirrel?
        *Post deleted* need more coffee.
Re: When I see "10", I think:
by chacham (Prior) on Feb 06, 2012 at 03:31 UTC

    time to go to bed (looking at my digital watch)

    time to go to bed

    time = 20 + 9 + 13 + 5 = 47

    to = 20 + 15 = 35

    go = 7 + 15 = 22

    to = 20 + 15 = 35

    bed = 2 + 5 + 4 = 11

    47 + 35 + 22 + 35 + 11 = 150

    (looking at my digital watch)

    looking = 12 + 15 + 15 + 11 + 9 + 14 + 7 = 8

    at = 1 + 20 = 21

    my = 13 + 25 = 38

    digital = 4 + 9 + 7 + 9 + 20 + 1 + 12 = 62

    watch = 23 + 1 + 20 + 3 + 8 = 55

    83 + 21 + 38 + 62 + 55 = 259

    259 + 150 = 409

    409? He thought really clean up with that one. ha ha ha...ferget it

      brilliant :)
Re: When I see "10", I think:
by Tux (Canon) on Feb 09, 2012 at 08:43 UTC
Re: When I see "10", I think:
by nimdokk (Vicar) on Feb 08, 2012 at 15:51 UTC
Re: When I see "10", I think:
by sarf13 (Beadle) on Feb 07, 2012 at 04:57 UTC

    Got 10 out of 10 on quiz...

Re: When I see "10", I think:
by pvaldes (Chaplain) on Feb 08, 2012 at 21:49 UTC
    rising five
Re: When I see "10", I think:
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 20, 2012 at 10:09 UTC
    perfect to time to hangout!!!!!!
Re: When I see "10", I think:
by MarxBro (Initiate) on Feb 21, 2012 at 20:37 UTC

    Maradona...

Re: When I see "10", I think:
by swampyankee (Parson) on Feb 23, 2012 at 14:38 UTC

    Insufficient data: I need to know the values of obase and ibase.


    Information about American English usage here and here. Floating point issues? Please read this before posting. — emc

Re: When I see "10", I think:
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 24, 2012 at 21:03 UTC
    I think '1010', and then I'm recursively entangled.

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