*snerk*
December 3rd, 2007 (11:42 pm)
There are 10 type of people: those who understand binary and those who do not.
There are 10 type of people: those who understand binary and those who do not.
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Posted by: jedibuttercup (
 jedibuttercup) Posted at: December 4th, 2007 01:42 am (UTC)
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*raises hand*
I was once terribly, terribly bored on a 7-day road trip at age ten, and spent many, many hours helping my nine year old brother fill a spiral notebook with the numbers 1 to 1000 in every base from 2 to 16. Including base 10, just to be complete. And Roman numerals besides. =)
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Posted by: Brendan (
brendanm720) Posted at: December 4th, 2007 03:02 am (UTC)
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Wow. You WERE bored.
All right... so, if Booster, you, your brother, dead people and me all understand hex, how many people understand hex?
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Posted by: Brendan (
brendanm720) Posted at: December 4th, 2007 02:03 pm (UTC)
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[shakes head]
All right, Stibbons... I'll reinstall the universe and reboot.
:)
(the correct answer, by the way was 57009.)
[is huge geek]
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Posted by: draconin (
draconin) Posted at: December 4th, 2007 01:52 am (UTC)
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Heh!
Here's a random number fact for you... If you've read "Hitch-hiker's Guide" then you know that the answer to "Life, the Universe and Everything" is 42. You may recall from a later book that the question to the answer was "What is 6 times 9?".
But... did you ever notice that 6x9=42 IN BASE 13!! Thereby proving that the universe is basically unlucky!
I asked Douglas Adams if he'd meant this to be like that but he said it was sheer coincidence (and hadn't noticed). :-)
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Posted by: draconin (
draconin) Posted at: December 4th, 2007 11:22 am (UTC)
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He came to Perth back in the early 80s when I was at Uni. I went to a lecture that he gave (very entertaining) and stayed to chat afterwards. AND!! I got all of my Hitchhiker's books autographed!!
He struck me as being a really nice guy. Very modest and unassuming. Unlike one or two other authors that I've met who were so full of themselves that it was a wonder anyone else could fit in the room with their ego. :-) I thought it was very sad that he died relatively young, although I did feel that his later works were not a patch on the early stuff.
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Posted by: artistshipper (
artistshipper) Posted at: December 4th, 2007 09:15 pm (UTC)
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*Insert Green Eyed Monster Here*
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Posted by: uninvitedCat (
uninvitedcat) Posted at: December 4th, 2007 08:35 am (UTC)
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:laughs: I love it!
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Posted by: bastardsnow (
bastardsnow) Posted at: December 4th, 2007 02:21 pm (UTC)
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::obligatory doesn't get it response::
But... but... you only listed 2!
That's very, very true.
I have a question, though...
If only you, me, and dead people can understand hex, how many people is that?