Thursday, July 29, 2010

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?

cropped kateAnswer below.

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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2 Responses to “Numbers for Nerds”
  1. Martin says:

    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

  2. Lucy Radutnaya says:

    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! :D

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