10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life

10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life 296

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 09, 2010 @10:48PM from the luckily-it's-not-a-thursday dept.

st2000 writes "My wife noted that tomorrow's date is 10/10/10. This was probably some time after Illinois whomped Penn State's butt. I pondered that for a moment, noting that 101010 was a valid binary number. Then it dawned on me that 101010base2 was 42base10. Verifying that this truly was the answer given after typing 'meaning of life' into Wolfram's web site, I thought I was onto something." You may say he's a dreamer, but he's not the only one.

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But (Score:4, Funny)

by JustOK ( 667959 ) writes: on Saturday October 09, 2010 @10:51PM (#33849464) Journal

is it mmddyy or ddmmyy or yymmdd?

Re:Just thought I would point out... (Score:1, Funny)

by odies ( 1869886 ) * writes: on Saturday October 09, 2010 @10:52PM (#33849470)

Stupid americans. It's 10.10.10, so it doesn.. Wait, what?

Re:But (Score:2, Funny)

by MBCook ( 132727 ) writes: <foobarsoft@foobarsoft.com> on Saturday October 09, 2010 @10:53PM (#33849474) Homepage

Ym/Dy/Md, where the capital letters are the first digits.
It's an odd system, really. Hard to use, but you get used to it.

Yes, you're on something (Score:5, Funny)

by Locke2005 ( 849178 ) writes: on Saturday October 09, 2010 @10:54PM (#33849478)

I think that something is called "drugs".

Re:Just thought I would point out... (Score:5, Funny)

by mysidia ( 191772 ) writes: on Saturday October 09, 2010 @10:55PM (#33849482)

It's 10 years after the world was re-born, after the Y2K collapse of civilization; this is very significant.

Re:Wow! (Score:4, Funny)

by JustOK ( 667959 ) writes: on Saturday October 09, 2010 @11:08PM (#33849548) Journal

messy looking calendar you got there.

Re:It's 52 (Score:3, Funny)

by MichaelSmith ( 789609 ) writes: on Saturday October 09, 2010 @11:14PM (#33849588) Homepage Journal

Not "42." 52. As in 0o52. Don't any of you speak octal/i> anymore?
Or even html...

ping 10.10.201.0 (Score:5, Funny)

by w0mprat ( 1317953 ) writes: on Saturday October 09, 2010 @11:17PM (#33849612)

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Well that rules out one possible cosmic coincidence.

Re:Just thought I would point out... (Score:3, Funny)

by theshowmecanuck ( 703852 ) writes: on Saturday October 09, 2010 @11:28PM (#33849650) Journal

No, it's 10/10/11111011010.

Re:Just thought I would point out... (Score:5, Funny)

by JustOK ( 667959 ) writes: on Saturday October 09, 2010 @11:29PM (#33849652) Journal

you forgot your towel, didn't you?

Re:Wow! (Score:3, Funny)

by MichaelSmith ( 789609 ) writes: on Saturday October 09, 2010 @11:32PM (#33849682) Homepage Journal

I am impressed by his aim.

Re:Just thought I would point out... (Score:3, Funny)

by WrongSizeGlass ( 838941 ) writes: on Saturday October 09, 2010 @11:34PM (#33849696)

Not for anyone alive right now ;-)

Re:Just thought I would point out... (Score:2, Funny)

by Null Perception ( 914562 ) writes: on Saturday October 09, 2010 @11:40PM (#33849724)

no, its 1010/1010/11111011010

Re:Wrong date (Score:2, Funny)

by davester666 ( 731373 ) writes: on Saturday October 09, 2010 @11:42PM (#33849736) Journal

Only when you stop calling me Clearly!

Re:It's (Score:3, Funny)

by colinrichardday ( 768814 ) writes: <colin.day.6@hotmail.com> on Sunday October 10, 2010 @12:24AM (#33849902)

But only in base thirteen.

On /. it should be written (Score:2, Funny)

by davidwr ( 791652 ) writes: on Sunday October 10, 2010 @12:30AM (#33849926) Homepage Journal

10/.10/.10

Re:But (Score:3, Funny)

by war4peace ( 1628283 ) writes: on Sunday October 10, 2010 @03:00AM (#33850406)

It's Dymdym, which is the new and improved measurement for common nonsense, such as in TFA.

Re:Just thought I would point out... (Score:5, Funny)

by Hognoxious ( 631665 ) writes: on Sunday October 10, 2010 @04:37AM (#33850612) Homepage Journal

I heard they had to modify all the abacuses to avoid a wraparound.

Re:I had the ND license plate "101010" for 10 year (Score:2, Funny)

by stevesy17 ( 1199543 ) writes: on Sunday October 10, 2010 @07:20AM (#33851032)

I assume you stopped every person on the road who may or may not have seen you plates and said:
"...Get it? It's 42base2. It's funny."

Re:Just thought I would point out... (Score:4, Funny)

by smitty97 ( 995791 ) writes: on Sunday October 10, 2010 @11:32AM (#33852134)

Imagine a cluster of those!

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ping 10.10.201.0 (Score:5, Funny)

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On /. it should be written (Score:2, Funny)

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