because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 1st, 2008
Along with mileage palindromes, I am also fascinated with those times of the day which are only expressed using the digits 0 (zero) and 1 (one). If you use a 24-hour clock you can produce all 16 values valid in a 4-digit binary string. Like so:
0:00
0:01
0:10
0:11
1:00
1:01
1:10
1:11
10:00
10:01
10:11
11:00
11:01
11:10
11:11
Posted in nerdliness, photography on Dec 26th, 2006
111111
In the word of binary numbers, this would be known as “high values” i.e., the largest value this register could hold. Were that the case here, the next number would have been “low values” or all zeroes. Sadly, that event won’t happen for another 888,889 miles.
While I most likely won’t see that happy event, [...]
