1100100 means D in binary.

D = 25

So it teaches you binary in 25 hours, that’s 1 day and that’s the longest day in the year.

Do I get E-Peen for this or did someone else already discover this?

Umm…

1100100 in binary = 0*2^0 + 0*2^1+ 1*2^2 + 0*2^3 + 0*2^4 +1*2^5 + 1*2^6 = 0 + 0 + 4 + 0 + 0 + 32 + 64 = 4 + 32 +64 = 100

So 1100100 in binary is 100 in decimal.

http://www.nickciske.com/tools/binary.php

Use it.

O kijk, een Nederlander!

Geluidsoverlast Posted:

http://www.nickciske.com/tools/binary.php

Use it.

I have a master’s degree in math, can I use that instead?

Binary is not a secret means to express letters. It’s a numeral system that expresses numbers in a different way. Every number has a binary representation, a ternary representation, a quaternary representation, any base you like. What base you use depends on what sort of context you’re working in. For computers, binary is useful since the architecture makes it easy to express things like “yes” and “no” (i.e. “above a certain voltage” and “below a certain voltage” ), while further granularity is difficult.

Computers thus tend to store everything in terms of binary since it’s the most natural system of numerals to do in a computer, however they are still prima facie just numbers. The way we convert them to letters is with a chart that says “okay, this number corresponds to this letter”, for example here. The number 100 doesn’t necessarily mean ‘d’, it’s just that when some smart guys got together and laid out the ASCII table, they decided that 100 was a good one for ‘d’, and pretty much everybody decided to go with it.

But your argument really requires a ton of leaps.

1100100 (binary) = 100 (decimal) -> ‘d’ (ascii table) -> 25 (???????)

Anyway, 100 isn’t the ascii for ‘D’ (that’s 68) it’s the ascii for ‘d’.

And how did you get that the longest day of the year has 25 hours? That would really screw up every clock ever made…This is why we have leap years, and the centennial exception to the leap year, and the millennial exception to the centennial exception!

...oh. you’re talking about Daylight Saving Time. Well, not in Saskatchewan.