# There are only 10 of us

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• Wow ingenious puzzle!!! Never saw the direction of arrow contributing to the answer! May 27 at 6:42
• @DialFrost Thanks! I tried to make it a bit cryptic but to my surprise it was solved very fast. May 27 at 7:06
• People here solve puzzles within 1 hour, I am amazed by this community! :o May 27 at 7:07

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.

• 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. May 26 at 22:46
• 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" May 27 at 7:18