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Skeptics with a K

Episode #0x100

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Science, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8924 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ear seeds, DOOM clones, Prince Harry, and acupressure. Plus Fortnite, accidental piercings, and Tim Roth. All your base are belong to Skeptics with a K.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So this is episode 256.

0:04.0

Okay.

0:05.0

Which is which is interesting because I'm a software developer.

0:09.0

So 256 is a number that's got some special significance for me.

0:12.0

What is it?

0:14.0

Is it like 2 to 8?

0:15.0

It's 2 to the 8.

0:16.0

So 256 is the number of integers you can represent with 8 bits.

0:20.0

The total number of in 0 to 255, so that's 256 integers total that you could represent in 8 bits.

0:26.6

And I've always had this perverse idea of instead of celebrating the base, Like episode 250 came and went.

0:33.6

Narrow mentioned.

0:34.4

We didn't care about it.

0:35.2

We didn't know if you didn't care.

0:36.4

We barely did anything for episodes like 200.

0:39.5

I don't think we even mentioned episode 200.

0:41.6

No. I think I think episode 100 or 150, we just went,

0:44.8

oh, that was episode 150, really?

0:46.4

And that was it.

0:47.3

So we didn't do any stick, we didn't do any bit

0:50.2

for the base 10 milestone.

0:51.5

So I thought it would be quite funny to do something for the for the base two milestones

0:55.1

and you've done something ridiculousptics with a K the

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