Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Google Tweets

Earlier today, Google posted the following on Twitter
I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010
This looks suspiciously like ASCII, so I set out to render it in a more human readable form:
Bin       Hex ASCII
0110 0110 66 f
0110 0101 65 e
0110 0101 65 e
0110 1100 6C l
0110 1001 69 i
0110 1110 6E n
0110 0111 67 g
0010 0000 20 (space)
0110 1100 6C l
0111 0101 75 u
0110 0011 63 c
0110 1011 6B k
0111 1001 79 y
0000 1010 0A \n
I doubt I'm the first to post this, but there you have it :-)

3 comments:

Administrador said...

I gotta learn how to read those..
Thanks! :D

Jeff Scudder said...

Reading binary does occasionally come in handy. I find it is pretty easy to memorize the 4-bit sequences that give you digits 0-F and from there, lookup in an ASCII table is easy.

Izkata said...

Har ye go, those who dunno:

>> print trim/with {01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010} { }
0110011001100101011001010110110001101001011011100110011100100000011011000111010101100011011010110111100100001010
>> print to-string 2#{0110011001100101011001010110110001101001011011100110011100100000011011000111010101100011011010110111100100001010}
feeling lucky