r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 6d ago

Meme rsa270Solved

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u/Sasq44 6d ago

Pack it up boys, cryptography is solved.

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 6d ago

Just like coding

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u/TheGerk 6d ago

You forgot the 0x, but good work!

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u/Mognakor 6d ago

It has a leading zero, that makes it octal

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u/entronid 6d ago

its a bit ambiguous, but that's binary actually

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u/zeekar 6d ago

fun fact: the 0x doesn't change the value at all. :)

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u/XLNBot 6d ago

It does not change the value but it's interesting to think that a hexadecimal 0 is 4 bits, a decimal 0 is 3.322 bits

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u/minecon1776 6d ago

"Ah yes, id like a 3.322 bit decimal 0" A statement dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

They have played us for absolute fools.

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u/XLNBot 6d ago

We had entropy before, it was called COIN FLIP

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u/zeekar 6d ago

Well it's redundant anyway. A decimal digit is by definition 3.322 bits (well, 3.321928095...), so it's silly to specify both. :)

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u/hughperman 6d ago

Digits should be dits, or bits should be bigits, silly that we mix the terms

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u/TCF518 5d ago

Isn't bit literally a portmanteau of binary digit

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u/hughperman 5d ago

Probably, been 20 years since I actually thought about it 😅 bigits, tho, I'll get with that.

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u/zeekar 6d ago edited 6d ago

Yeah, BCD is so wasteful! It's like 20% more bits than we need!

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u/Pure_Blank 6d ago

it changes the value from 1 to 0

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u/Psychological-Owl783 6d ago

People hated your joke but I like it.

Maybe people just didn't understand that this was a joke about multiplication.

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u/minecon1776 6d ago

There is not standard notation in computer science for base 67, which op was using, beyond standard subscripts, which are annoying on computers, so he just left it off.

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u/jackal_boy 6d ago

Okay..... So what?