Inquiring Authors Inquire

[lagilman]

A question for the programmers and/or practicing magicians out there.... if you were working in a binary magical system, what would be the most powerful numbers after 10? What would be the weakest? Be useful, have a bad guy named after you. :-)

(yes, this really is my life. Until the next project, where I'll be asking about bullet velocity and hot flashes.)

Comments

[lagilman]

*goes squinty-eyes and thoughtful*


Hrmmm. I hadn't considered that particular angle...oh. hrmmmmm... *goes off on a tangent*

[greatsword.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest 1023 for similar reasons, being as high as you can represent with the fingers on both hands. One hand would be 31, if that works better for the plot. (Humans are a 10bit system.)

Depends on why you want it to be considered significant, too - 12 would be represented as 10101. 8 and 264 would be represented on the fingers by rather rude gestures...

Yes, I'm enough of a geek to have taught my son to count in binary on his fingers.