Birthday 2A ! 🎂

An interesting fact about my 42th birthday is that written in hexadecimal it it’s 0x2A – – double AA for Andy Arthur of course.

As I’ve gotten more into computer programming, I’ve gotten more into using hexadecimal and binary math – – not just because computers use it but because mathematically it’s simpler and makes a whole lot of sense – few things in reality grow in powers of ten, but lots of things grow in powers of two. Most of nature is based around a base-2 system, where things grow by a power of it’s self. Same thing with money and human population.

1…2…4…16…32…64…128…256…1024…2056…4096

0b1…0b10…0b100…0b1000…0b10000…0b100000…0b10000000… Etc

0x1…0x2…0x4…0x10…0x20…0h40…0x100…0x200…0x400…0x100… 0x800… 0x1000