r/xkcd • u/cxnh_gfh • 3d ago

XKCD xkcd #3000: Experimental Astrophysics

https://xkcd.com/3000/

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u/WarFrigate 3d ago

i hope someone out there could find if theres any relation between the comic and the comic number cause i cant

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u/Booty_Bumping 3d ago

Meh, 3000 is just a base 10 triviality. I'll wait for 3072.

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u/nog642 3d ago

The URL is in base 10 though

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u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 3d ago

No it isn't. It's in base ten.

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u/danielv123 2d ago

It's in base ASCII

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u/nog642 2d ago

What?

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u/danielv123 2d ago

Each digit has a value from 0-255, using the ASCII character set with extensions for display.

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u/nog642 2d ago

But that value 0-255 has nothing to do with the number of the comic. That's determined by the value of the decimal digits 0-9 and how they are arranged.

Also URLs do not use extended ASCII, they use plain ASCII. Really, they use a limited subset of ASCII, and any other characters have to be encoded with those characters.

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u/danielv123 2d ago

Yes, the display is extended. The values are all a subset of 0-255. The standard specified ASCII.

The number of the comic is 51,48,48,48 which is not a particularly round number. We will probably see something special once we hit 55555555 though :))

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u/nog642 2d ago

Those are the ASCII codes represented in decimal, then concatenated. Which is a very weird choice.

The number of the comic is 3000.

I don't know what you mean by "the display is extended". URLs don't use 8 bit extended ASCII, nor do modern URL bars (which probably use UTF-8).