# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/161 "2019-11-12T23:31:36Z")
10100000 is the sum of the first eleven primes, and also the sum of the cubes of the first three primes. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2019, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/162 "2019-11-13T01:54:25Z")
Fiorina Fury 10100001 is a foundry facility and penal colony from the film Alien 3. ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/163 "2019-11-13T02:53:21Z")
In Major League Baseball, each team is scheduled to play 10100010 games in the regular season. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2019, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/164 "2019-11-13T07:45:03Z")
10100011 days following the first day of Passover (Pesach), used to calculate the date of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/165 "2019-11-13T15:14:35Z")
A Scrabble® board has 10100100 “plain” spaces; _i.e._, spaces with no 2x/3x Letter/Word multipliers. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2019, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/166 "2019-11-14T10:44:40Z")
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 10100101, en route from Warsaw to Cracow Balice airport, crashed during a snowstorm on April 2, 1969. ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/167 "2019-11-16T20:50:26Z")
The first U.S. vessel lost in WWI was the USS _Alcedo_, designated SP-10100110. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2019, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/168 "2019-11-17T02:12:03Z")
Martina Navratilova has 10100111 tennis titles, an all-time record for men or women. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/169 "2019-11-17T04:54:03Z")
10101000 is the product of the first two perfect numbers. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/170 "2019-11-17T12:45:20Z")
10101001 is the number of nonequivalent starting hands in the card game Texas hold 'em. ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/171 "2019-11-18T19:16:02Z")
The European food additive designation for calcium carbonate (AKA “chalk”) is E-10101010. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/172 "2019-11-18T19:50:45Z")
SJK 10101011 was one of the earliest New York City graffiti artists of the late 1960s and 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/173 "2019-11-26T05:11:45Z")
The Cessna 10101100 is the world’s most-produced aircraft. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2019, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/174 "2019-11-26T07:47:08Z")
United Airlines Flight 10101101, en route from Denver to Portland, crashed on December 28, 1978. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/175 "2019-11-27T16:16:24Z")
10101110 Now with filtered menthol. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2019, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/176 "2019-11-28T07:39:11Z")
“Paragraph 10101111”, a provision of the German Criminal Code that made homosexual acts between males a crime; and in early revisions the provision also criminalized bestiality. ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/177 "2019-12-03T09:46:45Z")
The [Universal Audio 10110000 Limiting Amplifier](https://www.uaudio.com/webzine/2004/february/text/content4.html) is a famous (in audio geek circles) 1960s-era analog studio compressor, designed by Bill Putnam. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/178 "2019-12-03T10:56:50Z")
Tennis Hall of Famer Martina Navratilova holds the all-time titles record for men or women with 10110001. ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/179 "2019-12-03T11:29:21Z")
Hundreds of thousands of travelers were stranded earlier this year when iconic British travel agency Thomas Cook suddenly ceased all operations and entered compulsory liquidation, after 10110010 years in business. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2019, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443/180 "2019-12-03T19:01:17Z")
10110011 is a strictly non-palindromic number. It is not a palindromic number in any base. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-binary/834443.md?page=10)