Binary Date

Added on October 3rd, 2010 by Puulaahi | Report Post
Tags:Math, Science!, WTF

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Ben1605 (#581)

13 years ago

10th January? This is like nine months too late.

djethex (#3062)

13 years ago

10.10.10.

Puulaahi (#4552)

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13 years ago

First of October Nimrods.

Ben1605 (#581)

Reply to Puulaahi

13 years ago

10th of the 1st of the 10th

10th of January, 2010

Soong (#11302)

13 years ago

ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD)

The one true way.

Ben1605 (#581)

Reply to Soong

13 years ago

That way at least makes sense, most significant number to the left like in the decimal and binary (for instance), much more than sticking the least significant in the middle and the two most at beginning and end.

Soong (#11302)

Reply to Ben1605

13 years ago

It makes the most sense. You’re going from most general to a specific day. It also means that if your dealing with a lot of dates (especially spanning years), you can sort them numerically and they will be in chronological order too. If you begin with the day of the month or the month then all of your Octobers will be together even though they’re from different years because they all start with 10. If you start with the day of the month then all of your 3rds will be together even if they’re from different months and years.

Ben1605 (#581)

Reply to Soong

13 years ago

That’s true, but you could always just sort them chronologically rather than numerically. Just saying…

Dooood (#8810)

13 years ago

Actually, 100110 in binary equals 38.

TGGeko (#2562)

Reply to Dooood

13 years ago

Makes sense to me.

RSIxidor (#950)

Reply to Dooood

13 years ago

Actually it means nothing with out two additional bits.

NoOneInParticular (#3134)

Reply to RSIxidor

13 years ago

Not really – just the way it is, it could be octal 46, or base-4 212.

Ben1605 (#581)

Reply to RSIxidor

13 years ago

Wrong. That would be like saying you need to write one hundred and twenty-three in the decimal system as 00000123. You don’t need to make it up to a byte unless you’re a computer and saving it to your memory. Humans can cope without binary being in bytes.