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$ ./ntob  -h
ntob, version 1.01

usage: ./ntob -o <output base> -n <input value> [-i <input base>] [-h]

N to Base: Convert a number from one base to another. Bases can be anything from 2 to 36.
Input base defaults to 10. Bases beyond 16 use the alphabet as you'd expect.

Examples:

$ ntob -o 2 -n 10             # convert 10 to binary
1010

$ ntob -o 10 -n 1010 -i 2     # and back
10

$ ntob -o 8 -n 10             # convert 10 to octal
12

$ ntob -o 16 -n 10            # base 16 A is equal to decimal 10
A

$ ntob -o 36 -n 35            # base 36 Z is equal to decimal 35
Z

$ ntob -o 36 -n  1767707668033969
HELLOWORLD

Data from http://www.lcra.org/water/conditions/historical.html

Levels from 1940 to Updated 2010/03/08.

Not!

http://www.universetoday.com/2007/07/25/will-the-mars-look-as-big-as-the-moon-on-august-27-nope

And, my own debunking; img

Pluto is not a planet. Get over it. While there is some ambiguity in the definition of planet especially in the middle, there is little ambiguity at the extremes of the definition. Pluto is way out there. We were wrong to call it a planet. Now we know better. Let it go people. This is science. We correct science when it is shown to be wrong, unlike some other things.

Did you know that Jupiter could have been a star? Only needed to be a little bigger!

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Network speeds

Theoretical limits

Observed

References

http://www.homenethelp.com/web/explain/about-network-speeds.asp

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci783003,00.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet

http://www.infobahn.com/t1-speed.htm

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bandwidths#Local_area_networks

pi dish a friend gave me one year:

And someone gave me a t-shirt with pi on it
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I thought what the heck and grabbed this domain:
pi 2 13

I received these cool pics in an email. I thought they were interesting and was curious about some of the stars I’d never heard of. This lead to a round of Googling…

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googol

One entry found for googol.
Main Entry: googol
Pronunciation: gu-gol
Function: noun
Etymology: coined by Milton Sirotta born about 1929 nephew of Edward Kasner died 1955 American mathematician : the figure 1 followed by 100 zeroes equal to 10¹⁰⁰ - Websters

- Carl Sagan

googolplex

A googolplex is the number one followed by one googol zeroes, or ten raised to the power of one googol:

10^googol = 10¹⁰¹⁰⁰.

In the documentary Cosmos, physicist and broadcast personality Carl Sagan estimated that writing a googolplex in numerals (i.e., “1,000,000,000…”) would be physically impossible, since doing so would require more space than the known universe occupies.

For more info on googol and googolplex, Google them!