# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 6
**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:** [March 18, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/101 "2021-03-18T15:44:07Z")
If you have a penny, a nickel, a dime, a quarter and a half dollar, you have 10101 cents. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/102 "2021-03-18T16:52:15Z")
There are a total 10102 teams in the top four divisions of English professional football (soccer). ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/103 "2021-03-18T16:58:32Z")
in '10110, I drove up to Calgary. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2021, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/104 "2021-03-19T00:40:17Z")
Haydn’s “Surprise Symphony” is Symphony #10111. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2021, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/105 "2021-03-19T14:14:00Z")
Interstate 10112 serves 21 of the 1212 largest cities in the United States: New York, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Washington, Boston, Baltimore, and Miami. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/106 "2021-03-19T16:05:06Z")
10120 is a lot less fun than 02120. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/107 "2021-03-19T17:02:40Z")
Messier object M10121 is a magnitude 110.0 planetary nebula in the constellation Ursa Major, also known as the Owl Nebula. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2021, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/108 "2021-03-23T10:48:34Z")
10122 = 111 + 211 + 1011. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2021, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/109 "2021-03-23T12:58:51Z")
10200 Luftballons ---
**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:** [March 23, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/110 "2021-03-23T13:40:32Z")
Also “10200” - a great Toto song that you don’t hear very often 10200 I’ve been waiting so long Oh 10200 Where did we go wrong Oh 10200 I love you ---
**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:** [March 23, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/111 "2021-03-23T13:43:54Z")
10201 is a round number in base 101. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/112 "2021-03-23T15:02:51Z")
_10202 Dalmatians,_ of course. Unless you want to go to Room 10202. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/113 "2021-03-23T15:13:09Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > _10202 Dalmatians,_ of course. And, of course, the sequel, [10203 Dalmatians](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211181/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0) ---
**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:** [March 23, 2021, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/114 "2021-03-23T15:21:44Z")
Bzzzt! You mean 10210 Dalmatians 🙂. 10211 is the smallest number (apart from 1) that is impossible to score with 2 darts on a standard dartboard. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2021, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/115 "2021-03-24T04:57:35Z")
Franz Joseph Haydn wrote 10212 symphonies that authorities agree upon the numbers. He in fact wrote more. To me, they are virtually indistinguishable, so I say he wrote the same symphony 10212+ times. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2021, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/116 "2021-03-24T10:17:12Z")
Good one! And I tend to agree. I had the pleasure of playing no. 10212 with a junior orchestra many years ago. By the age of 2121, the average person will have lost 10220 pounds of skin over their lifetime. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2021, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594/117 "2021-03-24T12:38:50Z")
The earliest surviving use of the term “Catholic Church” is Ignatius’ letter to Christians in Smyrna, in the year 10221. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-in-trinary/930594.md?page=5)