I couldn’t think of anything big and fancy to do for the 200th comic, and didn’t feel up to Yet Another All-Hands Poster. (Let’s face it: After the Christmas poster, I don’t think I can do those anymore. Too many ducks!)
So you get some geeky number-representation humor.
You’re welcome.
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Spud’s Geeky, Mathematical Guide to Getting This Joke:
The first step is to realize that this is a play on all the different ways to represent the number 200.
“148” is, oddly enough, 200 in duodecimal form. Each digit represents a power of 12.
1 x 12^2 = 144.
4 x 12 = 48.
8 x 1 = 8.
144 + 48 + 8 = 200. Natch.
“11001000” is binary – every place represents a power of 2. 128 + 64 + 8 = 200.
“C8” is hexadecimal, base 16. For bases that go above 10, letters are used to represent values. A is usually 10, so C would be 12.
12 x 16 = 192.
8 x 1 = 8.
192 + 8 = 200.
“310” is octal, base 8.
3 x 64 = 192.
1 x 8 = 8.
0 x 1 = 0.
192 + 8 = 200. (Sensing a pattern?)
As for “CC”… Well, if you can’t at least recognize those by now, you just aren’t old-school enough.
(In all seriousness, starting off with base 12 REALLY threw me off for a while. Took me a while to get the whole joke. Nice nerd-sniping, dad.
As revenge, I’ll explain the joke for everyone else so they don’t have to waste their time like I did.)
I’m partial to this one:
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Congratulations on the first 200! It’s been a real fun ride so far…
Maybe I’m just old, but I agree with Score. “There was a dream, and it was Rome…”