It's not Christmas and Halloween.
How not? There's a jack-o-lantern with a Christmas style hat on... See, I get it
It's not Christmas and Halloween.
The Geek Test explained:
Some say that geeks get Halloween and Christmas confused because:
dec 25 = oct 31
also written as:
decimal 25 = octal 31
decimal is the base 10 numeral system, using 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
octal is the base 8 numeral system, using 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Other significant numeral systems include:
binary is the base 2 numeral system: 0, 1
hexadecimal is the base 16 numeral system: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F
For the non-Geeks, your computer's calculator (View - Scientific or View - Programmer) has radio buttons for changing from Hex, Dec, Oct, Bin.
Thumbs up to all those who got it.
Honorable mention to:
Scutter01, for binary response
T.Lex, for hexadecimal response
mudwater, for response of one one zero zero one
There were many other correct responses, so . . .
Geeks, Stand Up and be Proud . . .
[U]Hexadecimal Decimal Octal Binary[/U]
0 0 0 0
1 1 1 1
2 2 2 10
3 3 3 11
4 4 4 100
5 5 5 101
6 6 6 110
7 7 7 111
8 8 10 1000
9 9 11 1001
A 10 12 1010
B 11 13 1011
C 12 14 1100
D 13 15 1101
E 14 16 1110
F 15 17 1111
10 16 20 10000
11 17 21 10001
12 18 22 10010
13 19 23 10011
14 20 24 10100
15 21 25 10101
16 22 26 10110
17 23 27 10111
18 24 30 11000
19 [B]25 31[/B] 11001
1A 26 32 11010
1B 27 33 11011
1C 28 34 11100
1D 29 35 11101
1E 30 36 11110
1F 31 37 11111
got it without looking. Since I haven't programmed a PLC5 in a while, I am a bit rusty on my oct.
If you come here to find out if you are a geek.
You are indeed a geek whether or not you get it or not.
here's another geek issue to think about.
Sept = 7
Oct = 8
Non = 9
Dec = 10.
So why September the 9th month, October the 10th, November the 11th, and December the 12th month?
The correct answer is an interesting bit of history, to a geek anyway.
It had something to do with some guys named Julius and Augustus...