# Count in binary. **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 24, 2019, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443 "2019-05-24T07:57:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/81 "2019-07-12T10:59:36Z")
1010001 is the symbolic number of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. ‘H’ and ‘A’ are the 1000th and 1st letter of the alphabet, respectively. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2019, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/82 "2019-07-14T04:57:54Z")
Some famous people who are 1010010 years old: Colin Powell, Shirley Bassey, George Takei. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/83 "2019-07-14T13:31:22Z")
Some famous people who are 1010011 years old: Julie Andrews, Woody Allen, Alan Alda, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Mathis, Dean Stockwell. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/84 "2019-07-18T22:17:40Z")
It takes Uranus 1010100 years to orbit the sun once. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/85 "2019-07-23T17:23:37Z")
Hank Aaron, Shirley MacLaine, Larry King, Giorgio Armani, Jane Goodall, Bill Russell and Frankie Valli are all 1010101 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/86 "2019-07-23T17:58:02Z")
1010110 is an old slang word meaning to throw out, eject. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/87 "2019-07-23T19:28:02Z")
There were 1010111 years between the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Battle of Gettysburg, immortalized in Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address with the phrase “fourscore and seven years ago…” ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/88 "2019-08-02T18:43:50Z")
A piano has 1011000 keys… the same number of days it takes Mercury to orbit the sun. ---
**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/89 "2019-08-02T19:04:19Z")
The Oklahoma Redhawks used to be known as the Oklahoma 1011001ers. (Minor league baseball team) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/90 "2019-08-02T20:11:35Z")
Major League Baseball bases form a 1011010-foot square. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/91 "2019-08-02T23:43:47Z")
1011011 days is 1101 weeks, or approximately 11 months. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/92 "2019-08-03T04:05:48Z")
The Guinness record of the longest place name, Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaurehaeaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (pronounced _Toe-mah-tah-fah-kah-tah-ngi-hah-nga-kaw-oh-oh-aw-ta-ma-te-a-too-ri-poo-ka-ka-pee-kee-mow-nga-haw-raw-noo-koo-paw-kai-feh-noo-ah-kee-tah-nah-tah-hoo_), has 1011100 characters. 1011100 is also the atomic number of uranium. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/93 "2019-08-07T13:38:21Z")
_1011101_ (Quatrevingt-treize) is a novel concerning the French Revolution by Victor Hugo. It was his last novel. 1011101 is also the atomic number of neptunium. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/94 "2019-08-11T13:36:20Z")
Haydn’s “Surprise” Symphony is Symphony #1011110. 1011110 is also the atomic number of plutonium. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/95 "2019-08-17T22:48:53Z")
Martin Luther’s 1011111 Theses. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/96 "2019-08-17T23:45:48Z")
1100000 is a town in Greenwood County, South Carolina. ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/97 "2019-08-18T01:00:45Z")
I vaguely remembered a concert of the Old 1100001’s being important in some movie I half-watched a while ago. A little research shows it was _The Break-Up_, which I don’t recall ever seeing before. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/98 "2019-08-18T11:16:10Z")
1100010 is the highest jersey number allowed in the National Hockey League, as 1100011 was retired by the entire league to honor Wayne Gretzky and major-league sports only allow 1- or 10-digit uniform numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/99 "2019-08-18T15:06:49Z")
1100011 Luftballons. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/100 "2019-08-18T19:17:05Z")
There are 1100100 blasts of the Shofar heard in the service of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443.md?page=6)