Neatorama » binary http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:46:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Man in Bender Helmet Proposes to Girlfriend in Binary http://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/08/man-in-bender-helmet-proposes-to-girlfriend-in-binary/ http://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/08/man-in-bender-helmet-proposes-to-girlfriend-in-binary/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:34:20 +0000 John Farrier http://www.neatorama.com/?p=60537

(Video Link)

You don’t speak binary? That’s okay. The bride-to-be explains what happened:

My boyfriend told me I had to close my laptop for a couple minutes, then when I logged back on this was posted to my facebook wall. He sat across the room as I transcribed and then decoded it. After about a half hour I found out it says, “Rachel, you are awesome. Will you marry me?” I said yes, of course :B

Marriages that are founded on ones and zeroes are the only ones that are stable and healthy because there’s no such thing as two.

-via Geekologie

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Who says that geeks can’t dance? Well, maybe we don’t have rhythm … but our hands sure can dance! Here’s Binary Hand Dance by Vi Hart (who brought us such gems as Doodling in Math Class and The Pi is a Lie).

It’s sort of like Daft Hands for nerds!

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Students at the Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland, decorated the outside of their building with a giant LED clock that displays the time in binary. It consists of eighteen round windows, with green windows representing hours, blue windows representing minutes, and red windows representing seconds.

Link (in Polish) via Gizmodo | YouTube Video | Photo: Wroclaw University

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You don’t need a new calendar for the new year, if you’ve got 12 cents and an understanding of binary numbers! Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories posted instructions for making your own perpetual calendar.

It’s Wednesday, the fourth day of the week. The binary number for 4 is 100. We use “heads” for 1 and “tails” for 0. So the left hand column has (top to bottom) heads-tails-tails = 100 binary = 4th day of week = Wednesday. (If you don’t already speak binary, no biggie. Start here or here and join us in a minute.)

It’s December, month 12, and 12 in binary is 1100, so the middle column is heads-heads-tails-tails.

Finally, the last column is all heads, since it’s December 31, and 31 decimal = 11111 binary.

Got that? Me neither. Link

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