# Count in Trinary **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 15, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594 "2021-01-15T13:17:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/61 "2021-01-26T15:41:48Z")
There must be 1212 ways to leave your lover ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/62 "2021-01-26T15:59:58Z")
Some say the UK is the 1220st state. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/63 "2021-01-26T16:16:12Z")
Want to play a fun game? It’s called 1221 Pick Up. ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/64 "2021-01-27T14:10:34Z")
1222 is a self number. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/65 "2021-01-27T15:11:50Z")
If I read the Wikipedia article correctly all odd numbers are self numbers in ternary, so that’s hardly remarkable. Studio 2000 is the trinary world equivalent to a well known (former) NY nightclub. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/66 "2021-01-27T16:04:41Z")
I can’t drive 2001! ---
**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:** [January 28, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/67 "2021-01-28T01:11:28Z")
2002 men signed the U.S. Declaration of Independence in the year 2102210. ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/68 "2021-01-28T03:05:07Z")
There are exactly 2010 card-carrying members of the Communist Party in the Department of Defense at this time! —Senator John Yerkes Iselin > [@naita](#): > > so that’s hardly remarkable. Yet a remark was made. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2021, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/69 "2021-01-28T09:44:22Z")
In _SpongeBob SquarePants,_ Patrick claims that “2011 is like the luckiest number ever.” ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/70 "2021-01-28T17:57:52Z")
In the year 2012 Roman emperor Nero had his mother killed. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/71 "2021-01-28T22:46:30Z")
There are 11 Archimedean solids with 2020 vertices: the truncated icosahedron, the rhombicosidodecahedron, the snub dodecahedron, and the truncated dodecahedron. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/72 "2021-01-31T22:12:29Z")
U.S. Route 2021 is known as the “Blues Highway” and was the inspiration for Bob Dylan’s album Route 2021 Revisited. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2021, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/73 "2021-02-01T05:29:31Z")
There are 2022 faces on a rhombicosidodecahedron. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/74 "2021-02-01T05:48:48Z")
2100 is the sum of 20 powers of 2 (2100 = 20 + 21 +22 + 210 +211 +212) ---
**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:** [February 1, 2021, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/75 "2021-02-01T05:59:06Z")
The Beatles Song, “When I’m 2101.” ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/76 "2021-02-01T11:27:54Z")
2102 years old is a common retirement age, but by the time I get there, might be ‘too young’. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2021, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/77 "2021-02-01T13:00:18Z")
The historic U.S. Route 2110, dubbed the “Mother Road” by novelist John Steinbeck. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/78 "2021-02-01T16:29:43Z")
_Questions 2111 and 2112_ is a 2200221 song by the band then known as Chicago Transit Authority. (Ha, got two in one post!) ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/79 "2021-02-01T16:47:40Z")
2120 Nice! (I was going to let someone else reply that, but with the “minimum 5 characters”-restriction I couldn’t.) ---
**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:** [February 1, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/80 "2021-02-01T18:15:27Z")
Under U.S. Social Security, the age at which a person can receive the maximum retirement benefits is 2121. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594.md?page=5)