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General => Off-Topic => Topic started by: SmartBoy16 on 2009-10-13, 10:26:18 AM
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post fun facts here
only 10 out of 5 people understand binary
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And only 256 care. ;)
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post fun facts here
only 10 out of 5 people understand binary
Do you mean 5 out of 10 people? Saying 10 out of 5 would be saying like 10/5 instead of 5/10. Not to be rude, just informative. ;)
Argyria
A large family simply known as the "blue people" lived in the hills around Troublesome Creek in Kentucky until the 1960s. They were the blue Fugates. Most of them lived past the age of 80, with no serious illness - just blue skin. The trait was passed on from generation to generation. People with this condition have blue, plum, indigo or almost purple skin.
Got it from my cousin's website: http://www.leilaniroxmysoxx.webs.com/
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point proven :D
actually, "10" in binary is "2" on normal numbers. binary is a computer language that all computers understand. it only uses two digits, 0 and 1. im sure bluemonk can explain better than i can, i just learned it today.
PS: broken link
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the terminal velocity of an ant is so low it could be dropped from an aeroplane without dieing.
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Although a Mandelbrot fractal appears infinitely complex, the code to generate it is surprisingly simple, about 10-20 lines of code.
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Although a Mandelbrot fractal appears infinitely complex, the code to generate it is surprisingly simple, about 10-20 lines of code.
you can hypnotize anyone with this code. that's.....................c....o...o.....l.........................
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To be fair, changing bases in the middle of a ratio is not usually acceptable without specifying the base for each number.
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The oldest living house cat on record lived to be twenty-eight years old. And yes, that is in human years.
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The coolest gag ever was when Ben tricked us with a 3D sgdk on april fools of 2008! LOL: http://sgdk2.sourceforge.net/files/PearlHarbor.JPG
Haha, such a tease! 8)
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The sad thing is the image is actually believable, except for the smoke.
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"He is bigger than her" is grammatically incorrect. the correct way is "He is bigger than she (is)"
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point proven :D
actually, "10" in binary is "2" on normal numbers. binary is a computer language that all computers understand. it only uses two digits, 0 and 1. im sure bluemonk can explain better than i can, i just learned it today.
PS: broken link
I learned it in school recently. Now it makes sense to me. I was one of those 11 out of 101 people who didn't understand binary.
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The early Church declared that alcohol was an inherently good gift of God to be used and enjoyed. While individuals might choose not to drink, to despise alcohol was heresy.
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/FunFacts/index.html
PS, Is the link still broken. It appeared good on my computer.
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PS, Is the link still broken. It appeared good on my computer.
oh i found it! you probably should have mentioned to click "Did you know?"
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Oh, yah. I should have. :-[
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You cannot name any folder "con"
open notepad, type "bush hid the facts" (no quotes), save, close, and reopen
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You cannot name any folder "con"
open notepad, type "bush hid the facts" (no quotes), save, close, and reopen
Wow, I was not aware of those. It also seems you cannot name any folder "nul" (presumably for the same reason).
And the other one -- are those simply un-printable characters "hiding" the facts, or are they supposed to be asian characters that I don't have installed or something?
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i think they are Asian characters. on some computers, they show a few random characters. some people who have reported doing this used other "4-3-3-5" sentences and got the same results. although, i have never gotten that to work
i think theres a page on wikipedia about windows easter eggs.
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Haha! Good one "Bush hid the facts"! :laugh:
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Haha! Good one "Bush hid the facts"! :laugh:
I couldn't get this to work.
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what's your os?
Edit: here's the answer to that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts
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bush hid the facts doesn't work in windows 7, it did in windows xp though i remember.
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This bug does not work in Windows Vista and Windows 7 because IsTextUnicode is fixed and does not show this bug.
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"Don't know which page you're on? Look at the top corner!" ~ The Onion
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bush hid the facts doesn't work in windows 7, it did in windows xp though i remember.
EDIT://
This bug does not work in Windows Vista and Windows 7 because IsTextUnicode is fixed and does not show this bug.
That explains why it doesn't work for me. I got a Vista.
"Don't know which page you're on? Look at the top corner!" ~ The Onion
I don't get it. ???
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There are only 10 types of people, those that understand ternary...
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you, me, and probably bluemonk
"C#" literally is "C++++"
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@Tony: The Onion is a parody newspaper. One of the ads they had says to look at the top of the page.
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He said 3 "types of people" not 3 "persons". :P
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So you're saying ternary is like binary except dealing with 3s. Like 3 is 10 and 1 is 01.
But what did the top corner have to do with C#. I get it, the # is made up of 4 "+" signs.
Plus now that I think about it, more people must understand ternary than binary. ;)
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But what did the top corner have to do with C#. I get it, the # is made up of 4 "+" signs.
fixed
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A sharp (#) is a half step in music notation, and ++ means increment by one, so C# is C plus one and a half
Ternary is base three notation so
1=1
2=2
3=10
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A sharp (#) is a half step in music notation, and ++ means increment by one, so C# is C plus one and a half
Really? I always thought the C# was a half step up and the ++ was one step up. Is C# above C++?
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Geeks, the lot of you (OK, and me) ;)
You're trying to quantify things that weren't meant to be quantified. The way I "C" it (:)), C++ was a clever way of saying this language is one step greater than C. C# is a similar idea, but the name wasn't meant to be compared to C++ quantitatively. You don't just assign a numeric value to the result of C and compare it to other iterations of C to see which one is greatest. It's just a clever trade mark that gives programmers a little chuckle. If you want to get an extra chuckle out of "C#" think of it as one step (whole or half, whatever you want) greater than C. But this time it's much more elegant and beautiful because we're using the musical notation for incrementing :).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)#Language_name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)#Language_name)
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A sharp (#) is a half step in music notation, and ++ means increment by one, so C# is C plus one and a half
Ternary is base three notation so
1=1
2=2
3=10
So Binary is 01 and ternary is 001?
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not quite.
just like normal numbers (base 10) have places, like 1s, 10, 100s, and so on, Binary (or also base 2) has places for 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s, and on.
base 10 goes up each digit by the power of 10 (1x10 = 10; 10x10 = 100; 100x10 = 1000)
base 2 goes up each digit by the power of 2 (1x2 = 2; 2x2 = 4; 4x2 = 8 )
a way to convert binary to base 10 is shown below
11010110 = 1x128 + 1x64 + 0x32 + 1x16 + 0x8 + 1x4 + 1x2 + 0x1 = 214
ternary is just the same way, except by powers of 3 (1x3 = 3; 3x3 = 9; 9x3 = 27)
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Ugh. Macy's started putting up Christmas decorations. I just have to remember that computer programmers and mathematicians get Halloween and Christmas confused (because of the whole Oct 31 = Dec 25 thing, ya know... http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_are_december_25_and_october_31_the_same_numerically)
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HAH
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HA! I would never have thought of that! :laugh:
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Originally, a byte was worth only 7bits instead of 8bits
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not quite.
just like normal numbers (base 10) have places, like 1s, 10, 100s, and so on, Binary (or also base 2) has places for 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s, and on.
base 10 goes up each digit by the power of 10 (1x10 = 10; 10x10 = 100; 100x10 = 1000)
base 2 goes up each digit by the power of 2 (1x2 = 2; 2x2 = 4; 4x2 = 8 )
a way to convert binary to base 10 is shown below
11010110 = 1x128 + 1x64 + 0x32 + 1x16 + 0x8 + 1x4 + 1x2 + 0x1 = 214
ternary is just the same way, except by powers of 3 (1x3 = 3; 3x3 = 9; 9x3 = 27)
So 01 = 1, 10 = 3, and 100 = 9?
Ugh. Macy's started putting up Christmas decorations. I just have to remember that computer programmers and mathematicians get Halloween and Christmas confused (because of the whole Oct 31 = Dec 25 thing, ya know... http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_are_december_25_and_october_31_the_same_numerically)
I got confused. :-[
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type ".LOG" (no quotes, must be in caps) in the beginning of a notepad file and write anything under it.
for example:
.LOG
whatever you want here, it really doesn't matter.
file->save, File->exit. open it again and see what happens!