Geek Lexicon Vol 1: Chapter 1: Part 1: Numbers

If find that there are things I'm just supposed to know about as a member of the smarty-pants computer loving video gaming sci-fi watching (but still cool overall) clich. So I've decided to compile a Geek Lexicon. It'll be a sort of Codex of Ultimate Wisdom for geek lore. Or just a few pages of stuff that everybody else already knows.

Either way, it'll be fun to make.


Geekodex Vol 1: Chapter 1: Part 1: Numbers

4294967295 = largest number that can be represented by 32 bits
In other numbering systems:
Hexadecimal: FFFFFFFF
Binary: 11111111111111111111111111111111

On the binary note, I discovered a long time ago that 42 is 101010. The other day my 5 year old daughter wrote 101010 on the bottom of a drawing. I asked her why and she didn't know. Douglas Adams was right - it must be coded right into our DNA.

Comments on Last.fm

Sometimes you come across rare gems in the comments section of websites. This one is almost as epic as the song he was talking about:

LOL i lfucking love it in Crying when the little electronica technoish part comes and then his epic vocals come in as if he were saying GTFO witht hat techno shit and then it turns metal as fuck.

Ah, spoken like a true poet. I love when things turn metal as f*ck. 

Whatever that means.

Quote of the day

I saw this comment on Youtube today, in reference to the Japanese pumping radioactive water into the sea.

It's impossible to be happy in a world like this. I'm looking forward to the world built on the ashes of this one. Not that I'll survive the transition, though.
Baw.

Perfection.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDeFNDsfeoI&feature=player_embedded