Sunday, October 10, 2010

Math! Blast it!

Today is 10/10/10! We tried to do something exciting at 10am, and ended up jumping up and down in the kitchen and having a kiss. M explained, that in binary, today is "42", which, as everyone knows, is the answer to Life, the Universe, and EVERYTHING! And then he became very judgmental when we did not understand how binary (and decimals) worked. Not cool.

In other math news, we are leaving for France in a few days, and learning french together. Numbers are really hard! Did you know that the number for 70 translates as "Sixty-ten" and 71 is "sixty-eleven" etc.? AND, not only that, but the number for 80 translates as "four twenties" and, EVEN WORSE, 90 is "four twenties and ten." And 91 is "four twenties and eleven", and so on. I mean, seriously. Come on.

4 comments:

d00dpwn1337 said...

There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary, and those that don't.

http://www.fortytwoday.com/

kbmulder said...

You will not believe it!!! My husband also told me that 101010 is 42 and tried to explain how binary works. Then he told me you can use it for alphabet too. I did not get a kiss in the kitchen:(

dad said...

10/10 (77) was my senority date at Allison's.

Carrie said...

Binary? Which class taught that at Martinsville HS?