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The Binary Code In Canada's Gov-Gen Coat of Arms
Lev13than writes "Dr. David Johnston, formerly the president of the University of Waterloo, was installed as Canada's new Governor-General on Friday. As de facto head of state and the Queen's representative in Canada he is required to design a personal coat of arms. One modern detail has attracted particular attention - a 33-digit palindromic binary stream at the base. Efforts to decode the meaning of the number using ASCII, Morse, grouping by 3/11 and other theories has so far come up empty (right now it's a toss up between random, the phone number 683-077-0643 and Morse code for 'send help - trapped in a coat of arms factory.') Is 110010111001001010100100111010011 the combination to his luggage, or just a random stream of digits?"
all it says is EH
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yeah, but where's the fun in that? :)
110010111001001010100100111010011 is 33 successive digits of pi (in decimal/binary/ternary/etc.). Cunningly, he did not choose the first 33 digits, of course.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
If he were from New Zealand I would say it's a binary solo, but being from Canada I'm not sure.
... Robert Langdon!!! I'm sure that buried somewhere in that seemingly random sequence of 1s and 0s is a code that will shake the very foundations of the human race and expose a truth that has long been hidden!
I can already hear Dan Brown feverishly scratching away at his notepad, as he begins researching and stringing together a load geographically accurate, but ultimately randomly contrived pile of nonsense for his next magnum opus, "The Canada Complex"
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The first thing I notice is the binary string is a palindrome, the same forwards or backwards.
This is to prevent Soviet Russia jokes from working in Soviet Canada.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
That OTAN is NATO backwards is incidental, mirroring is not the reason for it. The reason is that France succeeded in demanding French as an official Nato language. OTAN = Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord.
There is no use for mirrored writing on airplanes, they fly too fast for your cars rear-view mirror, and planes that do have rear view mirror wouldn't wait 'till the bogey is a couple of yards behind them to find out who he is.
In base 2, every number is prime.
They fixed that in base 2.0.1.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
Yes, but it's traditional to offer him a barometer.
Canadian planes should have 'NATOTAN' written on them to please the speakers of both languages ('NATO' 'stylishly' mirrored around the 'O'). Of course, for the Japanese, that acronym would read 'achieving a darker skin tone by slathering yourself in fermented beans'.
No, no sig. Really.
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I got this tattoo on my forehead that says "poor impulse control"
I work with a young lady who has a tattoo which is supposed to mean "One who enjoys herself" in Japanese.
I discovered, much to my amusement, that the word for "enjoys" can also mean "pleases".
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"The first thing I notice is the binary string is a palindrome"
I noticed that too, from reading the summary.
On some old sitcom, a customer is displaying his Chinese-character tattoo to the Chinese proprietor:
Customer (proudly): It means "fiery strength!"
Proprietor (horrified): No! It means of two men who love each other, you are the one who plays the woman!
That's okay, the mere fact that you have an interesting anecdote adds volumes to this conversation. No need to share it, that would just be overkill.
So you analyzed the code, now you may look up "palindrome"
I shop often in an Asian part of town. Bought my daughter a lovely pink kitten-infested shoulder bag with "Sing Sing Death House" neatly embroidered on it. With little fluffy sheep dancing about.
Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear
Then you get the generation gap. I remember walking through Dresden a few years ago when I saw a young girl (14 or so) wearing a cute shirt, also with a rabbit on it, with "Squirmy Fuck Bunny" in poofy letters. I'm pretty sure that she knew what it meant but that her older, conservative looking mom had no idea.
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
Maybe I'm just cynical, but I assumed all links here since about 2001 went to goatse. On a side note, it's also why I never RTFA...
That's a verb. It's what you do when you fill up your Cadilliac.
Then an intern mashed out half of it. Geez, do I have to do all the work around here?
The 'pleases" part probably has some underlining context to it such as "selfishly pleases" or "amusingly pleases" which would not be translated with the same underlying sexual interpretation. I remember in Japanese class one time I thought I said "I like to eat sushi because it is healthy", but I used the word "Genki" which actually translated what I said into something like "I enjoy eating sushi that is energetic and alive". My japanese teacher laughed at me and pretended to be a maki roll bouncing around the room.
That brings me to an interesting point, / . is just "the ramblings of socially-inept, technology-literate news-mongers".