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09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

This looks like random blabbering, right? A very specific random blabbering that has somehow appeared in blogs of at least tens (if not hundreds, maybe even more) blogs of techies all over the place. What is it?
For the more tech-friendly readers, it has some resemlance to a number - a long number, a 32128 bit one. And for those of you who are not Computer Science minded, you might actually prefer to see it as a simple base-10 (that means, decimal system) number: 13’256,278’887,989’457,651’018,865’901,401’704,640. I don’t know how to spell it in English, but I do in Spanish (why? Because we have this difference: In Spanish, a billion is a million millions, and a trillion is a million billions - unlike English, where a billion is a thousand millions and a trillion is a thousand billions). So, lets do the excercise in Spanish:
Trece sextillones, doscientos cinuenta y seis mil doscientos setenta y ocho quintillones, ochocientos ochenta y siete mil novecientos ochenta y nueve cuatrillones, cuatrocientos cincuenta y siete mil seiscientos cincuenta y un trillones, dieciochomil ochocientos sesenta y cinco billones, novecientos un mil cuatrocientos un millones, setecientos cuatromil seiscientos cuarenta
Hah! I guess my fifth-grade teacher would be quite proud of me!
Now, I hereby pronounce my transcription of this utterly long and basically random-generated number into the beautiful Spanish language copyrighted by me, and publicly available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, as it is a very valuable and hard literary work.
But, really, what is it? Well, this mindboggingly long number is the key with which most HD-DVD movies processed so far is encrypted with. Of course, the Motion Picture Ass. of America (MPAA) does not want this (again, randomly generated) number to be out there in the wild, so they say the number is copyrighted by them - This does not hold up, as it has been widely shown before (i.e. Intel dropped its 286/386/486 numbering scheme because a number is not copyrightable or trademarkable - and AMD was perfectly able to legally sell 386/486 chips). So, I have put more work into this number than what they have. I deserve the credit - the transcription is mine. Use it freely.
Oh, and of course, some more examples:<ul><li>Spell it with pictures!</li><li>Bumper stickers!</li><li>You like Flash-based content, or you use youtube-dl like I do? Enjoy the forbidden number song - Oh-nine Eff-nine!</li></ul>[update]: Yes, sorry, I was counting with half of my brain shut down and the other half brain trying to fetch some coffeine, or something like that. It’s a 128 bit number, not 32!

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3dkiwi 2007-05-03 22:49:42

Re: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Rendered in html we get:

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Note that this is used 3 times.


disorder 2007-05-03 09:38:12

Re: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

let me point some errors

CL-USER> (format t “~r” 13256278887989457651018865901401704640) thirteen undecillion two hundred fifty-six decillion two hundred seventy-eight nonillion eight hundred eighty-seven octillion nine hundred eighty-nine septillion four hundred fifty-seven sextillion six hundred fifty-one quintillion eighteen quadrillion eight hundred sixty-five trillion nine hundred one billion four hundred one million seven hundred four thousand six hundred forty CL-USER>


Sandman 2007-05-05 02:13:11

English

In English a Billion is a million-million. A thousand Million is called a millard.

You may be confusing it with American-English

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