# 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:** 6
**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, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/101 "2019-08-18T19:49:18Z")
1100101 Dalmatians ---
**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, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/102 "2019-08-18T20:49:12Z")
“1100110,” a song by The Judds ---
**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 19, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/103 "2019-08-19T14:21:17Z")
[1100111-Year-Old Woman Breaks Skydiving Record](https://www.npr.org/2019/08/19/752292522/103-year-old-woman-breaks-skydiving-record?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=storiesfromnpr) ---
**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 19, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/104 "2019-08-19T15:46:35Z")
Joseph Haydn wrote 1101000 symphonies. Though some have said he wrote one symphony 1101000 times… though one has a clock, one has a bear, one has a surprise, etc. ---
**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 24, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/105 "2019-08-24T11:34:18Z")
1101001 is the atomic number of dubnium, a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Db. Dubnium is highly radioactive: the most stable known isotope, dubnium-100001100, has a half-life of about 11100 hours. This greatly limits the extent of research on dubnium. ---
**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 24, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/106 "2019-08-24T16:55:53Z")
The Convair F-1101010 “Delta Dart” was the last dedicated interceptor flown by the USAF. ---
**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 25, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/107 "2019-08-25T00:55:29Z")
As “one hundred _and_ seven”, 1101011 is the smallest positive integer requiring six syllables in English (without the “and” it only has five syllables). ---
**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 25, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/108 "2019-08-25T01:37:24Z")
Many religions consider 1101100 a sacred number. ---
**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 25, 2019, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/109 "2019-08-25T02:02:28Z")
The Messerschmitt Bf 1101101 is a German World War II fighter aircraft that was, along with the Focke-Wulf Fw 10111110, the backbone of the Luftwaffe’s fighter force. ---
**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 25, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/110 "2019-08-25T14:34:20Z")
1101110 is sometimes called “eleventy”. ---
**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 25, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/111 "2019-08-25T16:47:30Z")
In cricket, the number 1101111 is sometimes called “a Nelson” after Admiral Nelson, who allegedly only had “One Eye, One Arm, One Leg” near the end of his life. This is in fact inaccurate—Nelson never lost a leg. Alternate meanings include “One Eye, One Arm, One Ambition” and “One Eye, One Arm, One Arsehole”. ---
**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 25, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/112 "2019-08-25T18:15:52Z")
In English Imperial measurements, a “hundredweight” was actually 1110000 pounds, or 1000 stone ---
**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 26, 2019, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/113 "2019-08-26T07:19:06Z")
1110001 is the number of _surah al-Falaq_ in the Qur’an. It is a brief five verse invocation, asking God (Allah) for protection from the evil of Satan. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/114 "2019-08-31T21:43:02Z")
1110010 is an abundant number, or a number where the sum of the proper divisors is greater than the number itself. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2019, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/115 "2019-09-01T03:17:12Z")
1110011 is the fire service emergency number in Mauritius and Italy, and the ambulance emergency number in Vietnam. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2019, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/116 "2019-09-03T10:42:23Z")
The Hundred Years’ War between France and England, from 10100111001 to 10110101101, actually lasted 1110100 years. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/117 "2019-09-03T20:03:37Z")
1110101 is the atomic number of the element Tennessine. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/118 "2019-09-03T21:49:03Z")
There is no answer to the equation φ(_x_) = 1110110, making 1110110 a nontotient. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/119 "2019-09-04T02:52:39Z")
1110111 squared plus 1111000 squared equals 10101001 squared ---
**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:** [September 4, 2019, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/120 "2019-09-04T02:55:03Z")
Although if you want to be pedantic, by the definition of pythagorean triples it’s 1111000 squared plus 1110111 squared that equals 10101001 squared [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443.md?page=7)