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I like days like today because I can make up goofy riddles like this…how many times do you see today’s date in the binary code below? The answer is easy. ;)

011101000110111101100100011000010111100100100111011100110010000001100100011000010111010001100101
 
I guess Steve was trying to make himself the "Tech FAIL of the day story" :D
 
Here's what I did. The date has four "1"s in row, so if you look at the number there's only two times that four "1"s occur and each time there is a "0" before and after the "1111"s.

So twice the patten occurs.
 
Here's what I did. The date has four "1"s in row, so if you look at the number there's only two times that four "1"s occur and each time there is a "0" before and after the "1111"s.

So twice the patten occurs.


Steve noted to my post, it's in fact just once, it was meant to be a riddle not a mathematic display of superhuman strength :D Convert that whole binary string to text
 
I was actually geek enough to laugh at the date as I put it as a file suffix today.
 
If you use ASCII perhaps. Someone using EBCEDIC might argue it says something else.
 
At first glance over these comments, I thought my computer science degree was worthless as I had no idea what anyone was talking about. Then I realized most of the comments are the ones that have no idea what they're talking about. Scared me for a sec.
 
^^ lol or people who skip the thread after reading the first post or worse after just reading the topic.. I mean he answered the riddle and posts continue to pop up with guesses lol...wtf?
 
Next year's going to be the first time we've ever had a date with all the same numbers, isn't it?

November 11, 2011 (111111).
 
0111001101110100011001010111011001100101001000000110111001100101011001010110010001110011001000000111010001101111001000000110011101100101011101000010000001101100011000010011000101100100001000000011101000101001

(yes it's binary coded ASCII)
 
Okay folks just to make it obvious, I found a binary to text converter, the long binary number whan converted to text says "today's date". Get it now?
 
This joke will work four more this year right? October the 1st and 10th and November the 1st and 10th right? And it would have worked on New Year's day and yesterday as well
 
Got the joke theorem. This joke works on the 1st,10th and 11th days of the 1st, 10th, and 11th months of years where the last two digits are combinations of "1" and "0".
 
^^ lol or people who skip the thread after reading the first post or worse after just reading the topic.. I mean he answered the riddle and posts continue to pop up with guesses lol...wtf?

I know, they guy above you and many more just don't get it. Some people think too hard sometimes, riddles are usually tricks of the mind, you don't need to be a mathmetician or scientist :p It's interesting to see how many people just skip over my answer and try so hard.
 

If you take todays date in binary and literally find the number of occurrences in the long binary number then yes the answer is two.

I know its a joke but this actually is a reasonable way to answer the question. I'm not so much saying that its the right answer, just a reasonable one.
 
Sorry Steve, I think January is "01" whereas October is "10." :p

I thought all Americans reverse the order in which they write the month and day, e.g. MMDDYY instead of YYMMDD?

Strange though, they don't write e.g. half past five numerically as 30:05 :confused:
 
Like I said earlier 2 decimal or 10 binary times. I totally didn't get the joke but I think that is a viable answer.

Yeah, I can't read binary to see "today's date". Also missed the joke. Forest for the trees situation.
 
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