Comments on: Do you speak binary?

By: The Metric System: a thing of beauty, and maybe a key to weight loss in America | Life In a Shoe

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:05:14 +0000

[...] It all makes sense, unlike our delightfully quirky system. It's all 1's and 0's. It's practically a binary system. [...]

By: kimc

kimc — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:17:41 +0000

And in response, I just have to say:
01010100011010000110000101101110011010110010000001111001011011110111010100101100001000000100110101100101011011000110100101110011011100110110000100101110

By: Melissa @ Anxious for Nothing

Melissa @ Anxious for Nothing — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:39:43 +0000

I just found this binary to text converter and remembered reading this post, so I came back to say:

0101100101101111011101010010000001100001011100100110010100100000011000010110111000100000011001010110111001100011011011110111010101110010011000010110011101100101011011010110010101101110011101000010000001100001011011100110010000100000011000010110111000100000011010010110111001110011011100000110100101110010011000010111010001101001011011110110111000100000011101000110111100100000011011010110010100101110001000000100100100100000011011000110111101110110011001010010000001111001011011110111010101110010001000000110001001101100011011110110011100101110

http://www.roubaixinteractive.com/PlayGround/Binary_Conversion/Binary_To_Text.asp

By: MInTheGap

MInTheGap — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:05:43 +0000

I have a binary watch– they’re kinda neat, and they take a while to master!

By: Missy

Missy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:46:01 +0000

My cousin had that on his t-shirt!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/frustrations/5aa9/

I didn’t ask what binary was, since I was obviously the wrong type.

By: Luke Holzmann

Luke Holzmann — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:24:27 +0000

Way cool! Keep up the great work [smile].

And I like the binary joke too.

~Luke

By: kimc

kimc — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:03:04 +0000

Amy,
Megan and I both laughed at your husband’s joke. We love it!

MamaOlive,
You might be surprised. I found that learning Latin really cemented my understanding of English grammar, and I suspect that learning to manipulate numbers in another system will cement Megan’s grip on algebra, which is all about handling numbers even if you don’t know their values.
Incidentally, I use algebra daily in real life. Just one example: it helps me multiply large numbers in my head.

By: MamaOlive

MamaOlive — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:02:13 +0000

I “get” it, I just don’t care. LOL. I had a teacher in 2-4 grade that I really liked, and she intro’d us to base 12 and 2 and so forth. It’s interesting, but I don’t see the point. I’m more of a practical application sort of person. (And yes, I know there are places to apply these things; just not in my world.)

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:29:25 +0000

My husband told me a joke that is very fitting:
There are only 10 sorts of people in the world
Those who understand binary and those who don’t!

By: Paulette

Paulette — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:46:00 +0000

Oh my stars yuck! Math ewwww, ya’ll are so danged smart, Kim you never cease to amaze me with your intellegence!
Perry your not so bad yourself dude. I love coming here, I know you are so proud of your intellegent kiddo’s as well!