What is in a number?

13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640 in base 10.

00001001 11111001 00010001 00000010 10011101 01110100 11100011 01011011 11011000 01000001 01010110 11000101 01100011 01010110 10001000 11000000 in base 2.

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 in base 16.

1 in base 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640.

Numbers are big business. Threats of lawsuits are being used in attempt to censor a cracked HD-DVD key, in a naive attempt to censor the Internet under the American DMCA legislation by the MPAA.

See : http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/01/1935250

Maybe I shouldn’t join in the fun. But it’s hard to resist giving a friendly gesture to the suits in the industry. Too hard.