Am I the only one..?

[kenny]

Who notices computer numbers in everyday life? For instance I always notice and chuckle to myself when I see 128, 256, 512 ,1024 on a clock or in math problems you know things like that. But not just ram numbers anything like gpu numbers or cpu numbers

or maybe I'm just crazy

[JDT]

Who notices computer numbers in everyday life? For instance I always notice and chuckle to myself when I see 128, 256, 512 ,1024 on a clock or in math problems you know things like that. But not just ram numbers anything like gpu numbers or cpu numbers

or maybe I'm just crazy

I do the same thing... and it is weird...

[atari2600a]

Apparently the writers over at Nintendo Of America &/or Europe feel the same way. In games like Super Paper Mario, I see them frequently, & not just the parts involving malfunctioning robots!

[Jorg]

My citizen service number (no idea what it is called in the US) ends on 486, I noticed right away when I got it.

[Yzzerdd]

I notice these as well. I usally find a chuckle when I find 286, 386, and 486 on page numbers, and sometimes math problems. I am yet to see 8086...

[Mad-Mike]

I'm always seeing them in various things, but I also USE em for various things, especially musical stuff.......like I have an idea to record a demo and call it 8088, I had an old instrumental called 486, and even a 286 jam session involving me playing my 286 through it's sound card against a regular rock setup.

[nige the hippy]

It's surprising how many normal people suffer from this condition, my house number is 468, just about every man I say this to mishears it as 486.

I look upon the binary power numbers as being pretty friendly, I also like squares, and numbers that are palindromes, or where combinations of figures add up to a "friendly" number or 10.

I don't think it's particularly strange, but just an innate human behaviour of trying to make patterns.


but there are also real patterns which are quite fascinating...

there's an equation which ha always made me smile...

e ^ (pi * i) - 1 = 0

that relates two irrational numbers, an imaginary number, the first real number, and nothing.

there's the fibbonachi series (1,1,2,3,5,8,13.....), where if you divide one number by the previous one you get closer and closer approximations to the golden mean, and here's a website.... wow

http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html#veg

and why do sugars and other molecules tend to form "right handed" versions, and why do magnetic fields rotate in the same direction round currents, etc etc etc.


I'm not a religious person, but i do sit in wonder at the fundamental nature of some very simple rules.