Binary Numbers

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

show dec 0
show dec 1
show dec 123
show bin 01111011
show hex 7a9c

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north.

show-raw dec 0
show-raw dec 1
show-raw dec 123
show-raw bin 01111011
show-raw hex 7a9c

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

show dec 123 as bin
show dec 123 as bin-bytes
show dec 321 as bin
show dec 321 as bin-bytes

As nightmarishly lethal, memetically programmed death-machines went, these were the nicest you could ever hope to meet.

show dec 12 as hex
show dec 12 as hex-bytes
show dec 321 as hex
show dec 321 as hex-bytes

Stars, everywhere; so many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.

show hex 2cfa as bin
show hex 2cfa as dec
show hex 2cfa as hex

It's not the end of the world at all - it's only the end for us... The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it... I dare say it will get along all right without us.

show-aligned hex 2cfa as bin-bytes
show-aligned hex 2cfa as hex-bytes

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

show-raw-aligned hex f5 as bin-bytes
show-raw-aligned hex f5 as hex-bytes

It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers.

show hex fa0 as colour
show hex f07 as colour

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.

show-raw hex f07 as colour
show-raw hex 369 as colour

The keel-mounted rail gun pushed the whole ship backward in a solid mathematical relationship to the mass of the two-kilo tungsten round moving at a measurable fraction of c.

show-raw-aligned hex ff0077 as hex-bytes
show-raw-aligned hex ff0077 as colour

Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.

show dec   3 as ascii
show dec  32 as ascii
show dec  65 as ascii
show dec  97 as ascii
show dec 127 as ascii
show dec 200 as ascii

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

show dec  9760 as unicode
show dec  3232 as unicode
show dec  9776 as unicode
show dec 12096 as unicode

An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.

show-raw dec 97       as ascii
show-raw bin 00100000 as ascii
show-raw hex 7f       as ascii

But the human race did not have even the slightest bit of psychological preparation for what was about to happen.

show-raw-aligned dec 12096    as bin-bytes
show-raw-aligned dec 12096    as hex-bytes
show-raw-aligned dec 12096    as dec-val
show-raw-aligned dec 12096    as unicode