I have this game I play at conferences. I show a picture of me when I first entered the learning and development profession. Yes, I have a kipper tie, flares, a modicum of hair (all now out of fashion) and in the background, for authenticity, are my old reel-to-reel tape deck, TV humming with valves, BT Trim Phone and Habitat print. I tell the audience this was 100,000 years ago. If anyone can decode this statement by the end of my presentation, I will reward them with a copy of The Blended Learning Cookbook.
Typically, only one in any audience ever gets it, even when the audience is from high-tech companies. The solution, of course, is that 100,000 is the binary equivalent of the decimal 32. Now perhaps no-one can possibly believe that someone so youthful could have been working in l&d for so long, but probably they've just never heard of binary numbers.
Well, another opportunity has presented itself to taunt you with all those zeros and ones, because it appears I have just made my one billionth post to this blog. Be the first to decode this back into decimal and I'll send you an electronic version of the Cookbook.
You can't beat a bit of base 2. 512. Too late?
ReplyDeleteThat'll be 512. Do I win?
ReplyDeleteBillion - short or long scale version?
ReplyDelete512 or...4096
;)
It's a little sneaky as "million" and "billion" only exit in base 10 but 512 in binary
ReplyDelete512!
ReplyDelete(yes, I'm a developer).
Hi, Clive.
ReplyDeleteI believe the answer you are looking for is 512.
Congratulations on you billionth post, and thanks for sharing all that great information. I've enjoyed them all.
John
It's your 256th post?
ReplyDeleteIf I recall my Base 2 math, the binary for 10,000,000 (10000000) in 8-bit is 128 which is the max.
ReplyDeleteSo, we keep going by adding 256, then 512.
1,000,000,000 or binary 1000000000 is the decimal equivalent to 512 blog posts.
My brain hurts now! Well, if I'm wrong it was fun to stir those forgotten brain cells. And I thank you for that!
512 or a round 200 in Hex. Myles
ReplyDeleteThe answer is 512, so well done to all who answered. Not sure who was first, so please all contact me at clives@fastrak-consulting.co.uk and I'll email you the book.
ReplyDeleteI always say 'there are 3 types of person in the world. Those who understand binary ... and those who don't' :)
ReplyDeleteHi Clive, thats the 512th post, can i get the eBook now?
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