My new favorite number… is being censored.

May 1, 2007 at 8:52 pm | In hd-dvd |

13256278887989457651018865901401704640, or as programmers might write it 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0, is a great number that has so many different meanings.. For instance:

And now the AACS is claiming that they own the number. Sorry AACS, like most numbers, 'your' number has a long history of prior art.


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  1. You are being watched by the MAFIAA.

    Comment by MAFIAA — May 1, 2007 #

  2. 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
    ZOMG!

    Comment by 09-f9-er — May 1, 2007 #

  3. Great domain. Keep it up.

    Comment by Ciaran — May 2, 2007 #

  4. What's in a number?

    13256278887989457651018865901401704640 eller snarare 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 tycks vara en big del på nätet just nu…? :rolleyes: Jag säger då det… Försöka censurera ett nummer? Bah.

    Slashdot | Digg.com Attempts To…

    Trackback by Nico.se — May 2, 2007 #

  5. I'm from Argentina, a couple of days ago my country and many more were blacklisted for Copyright Infringement by US Goverment. So as an argentinean, i think i am already guilty…

    In that case: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0

    Comment by seba.js — May 2, 2007 #

  6. Does this mean that the DNS (Domain Name System) is in violation of the DMCA, for sites in the USA? Thus every name server in the world should get a take-down notice?

    Comment by dude — May 2, 2007 #

  7. Ha. That rocks.

    All we really need to do is find that sequence in the digits of pi and tell them they can't patent a mathematical constant.

    Comment by Joe Grossberg — May 2, 2007 #

  8. @Joe Grossberg

    Sorry, nice idea though:

    http://pi.nersc.gov/cgi-bin/pi.cgi?word=09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0&format=hex

    "search string = "09f911029d74"

    string does not occur in first 4 billion binary digits of pi"

    Comment by Matthew Carroll — May 2, 2007 #

  9. 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0

    Hier, le 1er mai 2007, le blog Freedom to Tinker nous apprenait que l'AACSLA (Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator) envoyait depuis quelques jours une lettre type tous les webmasters ayant publi sur leur site Internet la fameuse…

    Trackback by devloop :: blog — May 2, 2007 #

  10. Sorry, nice idea though:

    http://pi.nersc.gov/cgi-bin/pi.cgi?word=09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0&format=hex

    “search string = “09f911029d74″

    string does not occur in first 4 billion binary digits of pi”

    4 Billion digits? That's it? Everyone knows you won't find the string until you reach the 13256278887989457651018865901401704640th digit of pi. Try it and you'll see.

    Comment by Patrox — May 2, 2007 #

  11. Perhaps if not pi… then Omega? Certainly, it cannot be disproved that omega contains a suitable string of digits.

    Comment by Jason Morrison — May 2, 2007 #

  12. Umm, letters won't show up in pi because pi is a NUMBER.

    Comment by me — May 3, 2007 #

  13. Yes, but we are talking about a number. Besides, it is easy to encode letters in pi: Base 16 will have 6 (or 16), base 26 can have the whole alphabet, and base 36 will have letters and numbers 0-9.

    It is also believed (but not proved) that any arbitrary sequence of digits occurs somewhere in Pi (and E, and Phi)…

    Comment by Benjamin Kreuter — May 3, 2007 #

  14. I think that finding this string in pi really could happen since anyways hex can be converted in decimal and the letters then don't have anything to do with it. And PI is barely infinite so it could contain any string somewhere… and someone is going to prove it soon according to the popularity of this key…. !

    Comment by 11 touche — May 3, 2007 #

  15. It's also integral to my pieces of art as colour values, the AACS isn't trying to censor art I hope.

    http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/4114/loveisdrmfreekg7.jpg
    http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/2010/2dloveisdrmfreedigitsfi5.gif

    Comment by Chao — May 4, 2007 #

  16. [...] One of the central themes of Warhol's work was the concept of celebrity, which made me think about last week's Digg meltdown and how a single number was the source of all the noise. This single number became a celebrity overnight (kind of like the girl from Heroes). [...]

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  17. 4640a6badc

    4640a6badc

    Trackback by 4640a6badc — May 8, 2007 #

  18. [...] Aparently the above number is copyrighted (?), and now that I might've broken the law, it is time for an apology: I'm sorry I haven't been more dilligent in keeping this website up-to-date. My excuse isn't a very good one, but life stepped in the way. It seems with all the busyness that Spring brings, I've hardly had time to work on the boat, let alone write about my progress. Furthermore, I've been in a stage where the work I have done isn't very visually interesting, so the pictures all look the same. I will post more soon, but here's a photo of the boat, framed up … which happened around Easter (sans epoxy, due to the cold weather): [...]

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  19. [...] One of the central themes of Warhol's work was the concept of celebrity, which made me think about last week's Digg meltdown and how a single number was the source of all the noise. This single number became a celebrity overnight (kind of like the girl from Heroes). [...]

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  20. That is f'ing hilarious!! What a number! lol

    Comment by LSU FOOTBALL — December 24, 2007 #

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