Summer on Radio 1

[Serin]

I've started doing it and I've got to Neptune.

[Behelzebub]

I can't get past the Buchanan one, dammit... help.

[Andy B]

I can't get past the Buchanan one, dammit... help.

How well do you know your U.S. Presidents?

[John]

I can't get past the Buchanan one, dammit... help.

An old US President with the same name as a town in North England

[Andy B]

Managed 16. Now on 17. This is bloody hard!!

Binary - easy

[Behelzebub]

I've already tried his first name and his full name but none of them work.

[Serin]

I'm on thirteen now, gah. Maths isn't my strong point.

[John]

Binary - easy

Really? I must be thick as pig sh*t then!

[Andy B]

I've already tried his first name and his full name but none of them work.

But which president is Buchanan and what number are you trying to reach?

[Andy B]

Really? I must be thick as pig sh*t then!

In Decenary (normal numbers) first number from the right is how many single units, next number is 10's next 100's and so on.

In Binary each subsequent number is a factor of 2. (I think it's a factor anyway)

so first colum is 10 to the power 0, next is 10 to power 1, next is 10 to power 2 (i.e. 100) etc.

So just replace 10 with 2

0 = 0

1 = 1

2 = 10

3 = 11

4 = 100

5= 101

6= 110

you get the idea

[John]

Ok must be me then because i still dont have a clue

[Behelzebub]

Oh screw it, I give up.

Edit: Just got the Buchanan thing. Am carrying on. Yay.

[John]

Oh screw it, I give up.

Edit: Just got the Buchanan thing. An carrying on. Yay.

Check your PM's

[Andy B]

Ok must be me then because i still dont have a clue

7 = 111

8 = 1000

9 = 1001

10= 1010

11= 1011

12= 1100

13= 1101

14= 1110

15= 1111

Does that help?

[Serin]

Now on 18

[John]

Now on 18

Have you got the Binary one? I really cant get it! :cry:

[Behelzebub]

Thanks John, haha, now I'm stuck on the "sedecim" one.

Edit: Done it. Now I'm stuck on the binary one too.

[Andy B]

Have you got the Binary one? I really cant get it! :cry:

imagine above all the numbers is a long line that goes

128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1

And below are the numbers 1 or 0 to indicate you should add that number so

1011 = 11 as illustrated

128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1

0____0__0__0_1_0_1_1 = 11

8+2+1 = 11

[Serin]

The binary thing took some doing, but I'm now on 19. Yay. It now looks like the periodic table!

[Andy B]

Not too hard, but the next one is a B*tch

[Serin]

What the chuff is twenty? :shock:

[John]

Right seriously. I feel stupid now. I'm just not picking this Binary stuff up. I hated maths at school

[Andy B]

You mean you can't get to twenty or you're on twenty and stuck?

[demonhorse]

stuck on sedecim.. is that in latin?

[Serin]

I'm on ojofuffo. I bet it's simple.