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.
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