Thinking Mathematically (6th Edition)

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Chapter 4 - Number Representation and Calculation - 4.2 Number Bases in Positional Systems - Exercise Set 4.2 - Page 227: 72

Answer

The number in the sentence is not “ten”, its binary number “one” “zero”, which is equivalent to “two” of base ten. Hence, the sentence read as “There are “one” “zero”\[\left( {{2}_{\operatorname{ten}}} \right)\]kinds of people in the world – those who understand binary and those who don’t”.
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