A photo of a cake with 8 candles in a row. The first and fifth candle from the right are lit. The caption reads "Happy 17th Birthday"

Very optimistic to have an 8th candle

The candles are only available in packs of 8. It's the smallest addressable unit of wax in many cake architectures

Who counts from right to left?

Is this image mirrored?

Happy 136th birthday

Now that you mention it it is pretty fucky, but in every textbook thats tried to teach me counting in binary its gone from right to left.

Even in decimal, the most-significant digit is to the left.
Binary in text form is no exception to this.

Unless we are talking little-endian, which would start with the least-significant bit.

Same here. University told me the lowest bit is on the right, the highest on the left. Never questioned it.

You will be surprised to hear that this is how we read decimal numbers too

It's not. Numbers are arranged (both binary and base 10) with the most significant digit on the left.

Whether you read the number from left to right or right to left is irrelevant and you can choose whichever one you want.

But it is completely consistent with base 10 (normal numbers).

I will grow older than 255 because then it will overflow and I become 0 years old.

Binary is always right to left? I've never seen it written left to right at least.

Oh, I like this. Nice.

In kindergarten I was taught when reading the number 123, the lowest digit is on the right, and the highest on the left. Never questioned it either.

Last birthday party I was at I just wanted a nibble of cake but they told me I had to take one or more bites.

There are 3 leading "zeros"

Old man's last words on his 256th birthday: "Unhandled IntegerU8OverflowException, terminating application."

33 was a special year for me because it's the same forwards and backwards both in decimal and binary

Binary exists in both big-endianLSb or little-endianMSb. In other words, both directions can be valid.

As explained below: Endianness is specifically the order of bytes. I was under the impression that it also implied a specific order of bits but anyways, the correct terms for this discussion is Least/Most Significant bit order.

1 is asswell :3

I'd have a few words with them, kick them right up their rear endian

Ya, but we pretty much always write it with most significant on the left. The endianness is more to do with the order transmitted when serialized. Or are there cases where people actually write it backwards?

Although a processor might be nominally capable of accessing a bus of a certain width, it does not mean that all address or data lines need be connected.

If 1 is asswell, then 2 is assgood, and 3 is the beginning of an orgy.

I usually just gather a nibble by picking up a couple crumbs... I'll see myself out.

Little-endian for the win!

Maybe this is a signed cake, so one can celebrate negative birthdays of people who aren't born yet. 🤔

Light all the candles as an announcement that you're gonna start having kids and hope she'll get pregnant in exactly three months. Not in 2, not in 4, but in 3 precisely.

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Am I being dumb? How ist that the same forward and backwards?

If you drop leading zeros as you would in decimal

Why do I confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because Oct 31 is the same as Dec 25

Heh I've been making my wife do this since my 32nd birthday.

She still doesn't understand binary and thinks I'm a nerd when I try to explain it to her.

Maybe this year, when it's 1+8+32, things will click.

The people saying right to left is normal are either Australian or mirror universe folks.

At least I thought that until I looked up ascii conversations and then just random converters .... How have I forgotten this? The pic is right...

I'd actually quite like an overflowing cake thank you very much

Damn. I AM dumb.

thinking of getting older than 255?

How about 4294967295?

Anyone who opens their egg on the small end deserves to be removed from our society.

The BTUs alone will cook you til your juices evaporate

I read 136 🤣

Ha🤣, that's great (once I was already thinking in binary/non-Dec numerals)

with 8 bit? true, with 32 bit you might have a chance to see the sun die, but.... there are just 8 candles

Because of the Hayflick limit, 7 candles should be enough... but only for now, hopefully.

Given that typical gestation time is less than one year, that involves some planning and determination.

I only buy ipv6 cakes, so I'm good.

There is another joke there regarding the movie nightmare before Christmas but I'm not smart enough to figure it out.

Octal 31 = 3 x 8^1^ + 1 x 8^0^ = 24 + 1 = Decimal 25

• The Yuki language in California has an octal system because the speakers count using the spaces between their fingers rather than the fingers themselves.[2]
• The Pamean languages in Mexico also have an octal system, because some of their speakers "count the knuckles of the closed fist for each hand (excluding the thumb), so that two hands equals eight."[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal

Which would be ommited if they were on the end, so this reads 136

Even in little endian you don't have trailing zeroes

That's the sign bit. The cake is in two's complement

This is a single byte, so it's represented the same in big-endian vs little-endian. Endianness defines the order of bytes, not individual bits