[all] I just taught my children how to insult people in Geek

[suba_al_hadid]

My nine-year-old son is the last of my children to learn how to count on his fingers in binary. So far he can count to 31 on one hand. He's learned the significance of the number "4". So tonight I introduced him to the values on the other hand, particularly "128". Naturally we then had to combine the values for the full effect. So now we know

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[t_bard]

I like how because of digital symmetry 4, 128, and 132 work regardless of whether your thumbs or pinkies are the least significant places.

What a highly encoded conversation this has turned out to be. Wait: 2B, that's hex!

[suba_al_hadid]

2A or not 2A = +/-42.

So Shakespeare was a little off :)

Much amused!

[herveus]

Well done!

[suba_al_hadid]

Thanks!

[mare_in_flames]

May I metaquote??

[suba_al_hadid]

How very flattering! I guess I should unlock this post then...

[suba_al_hadid]

Forgot to say, yes - please go ahead!

[mare_in_flames]

They love you out there, dahling!

[suba_al_hadid]

Suffice to say that the hand gestures resulting from displaying the aforementioned binary number are quite rude :)