Make sense of what you see below and tell me the answer.
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asked May 26, 2022 at 11:18
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$\begingroup$ Wow ingenious puzzle!!! Never saw the direction of arrow contributing to the answer! $\endgroup$– DialFrostMay 27, 2022 at 6:42
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$\begingroup$ @DialFrost Thanks! I tried to make it a bit cryptic but to my surprise it was solved very fast. $\endgroup$– Prim3numbahMay 27, 2022 at 7:06
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1$\begingroup$ People here solve puzzles within 1 hour, I am amazed by this community! :o $\endgroup$– DialFrostMay 27, 2022 at 7:07
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Answer is
binary
Draw lines from each cell in the direction of the arrow.
First makes 10, second 1001, 1110, 1, 10010, 11001
Read as binary 2, 9, 14, 1, 17, 25
Take the nth letter of alphabet: BINARY
Title refers to
in binary, there are only 2 digits.
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$\begingroup$ To be pedantic (I love it!), if 0 and 1 are the first two symbols of a counting system, then it does not matter the base: all of the counting systems will have 10 symbols. Hexadecimal has 10(hex) symbols: 16, octal has 10 (octal) symbols: 8. $\endgroup$– SJuan76May 26, 2022 at 22:46
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1$\begingroup$ I feel like the title could be a reference to the joke "There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't" $\endgroup$ May 27, 2022 at 7:18