42

Ok, so the way binary works is that the first digit represents the value for 1. If its a 0 its 0 if its a 1 its one. Then each additional digit, the value doubles, allowing you to express any base 10 number as a series of 1s and 0s. So in binary, the number 10 = base10(02) because the second column is the 2s column and its "lit up" by being on with a 1 in it. The next column is the 4s column, then the 8 column, then the 16s column, etc. And you just add up what has 1s to translate from binary (base(2)) to base(10). So 11001100 = 204 because 128,64,8, and the 4s column have a 1 in them. Add it up and its 204. Todays date is 10/10/10. 101010 in binary = 42. Because 32, 8, and 2 are 1s, or "on". In 1979 Douglas Adams wrote "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy". In it a massive supercomputer, after 6 million years of computation, reckoned that the answer to "life, the niverse, and everything" was 42. A later book established that the actual question was "What do you get if you multiply Six by Nine," but that's a different story. So happy "Binary Day" and happy "42 day.". Today is the day I "least suspect" anything significant to happen, would be a funny twist if it did, eh?