Numbers for Nerds
January 1, 2010 by katemckeon · 2 Comments
If you get excited about numbers, today is a spetacular day.
010110
It is a rare opportunity to present the date in binary form (that’s not the actual binary date however).
So just how rare is it?
Have you figured out how many times in a century you can represent the date with 1s and 0s without getting your arse kicked in public?
Very Happy New Year to you and yours! if you’re in Dallas, I have extra Cotton Bowl tickets, give a shout.
-Kate
Answers:
01/01/00, 01/10/00, 10/01/00, 10/10/00
01/01/01, 01/10/01, 10/01/01, 10/10/01
01/01/10, 01/10/10, 10/01/10, 10/10/10
Percentage of days you can be slightly cool with numbers, or feel slightly, smuggly numerically superior – also known as “clever” . . .
12 days
———–
36525 days
Or, .03% of the century.
We only have 3 more left this century, so grab your binary buddies and part hats. We’re gonna party like it’s 10-10-10!
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What about:
11/11/11, 11/11/10, 11/11/01, 11/11/00
11/10/11, etc
11/01/11, etc
10/11/11, etc
01/11/11, etc
01/10/11, 01/01/11, 10/01/11, 10/10/11
My brain hurts!!
Martin Wright
Impact, Poise, Presenting, Coaching, NLP
I’ve done extensive binary numbers when getting Bachelor’s in Computer Science. It’s not too bad once you get into it.
Happy New Year Kate!