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.


  • You are being watched by the MAFIAA.
  • 09-f9-er
    09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
    ZOMG!
  • Ciaran
    Great domain. Keep it up.
  • seba.js
    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
  • dude
    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?
  • 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.
  • @Joe Grossberg

    Sorry, nice idea though:

    http://pi.nersc.gov/cgi-bin/pi.cgi?word=09F9110...

    "search string = "09f911029d74"
    ...
    string does not occur in first 4 billion binary digits of pi"
  • Patrox
    Sorry, nice idea though:

    http://pi.nersc.gov/cgi-bin/pi.cgi?word=09F9110...

    “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.
  • Perhaps if not pi... then Omega? Certainly, it cannot be disproved that omega contains a suitable string of digits.
  • me
    Umm, letters won't show up in pi because pi is a NUMBER.
  • Benjamin Kreuter
    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)...
  • 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.... !
  • Chao
    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/loveisd...
    http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/2010/2dlovei...
  • That is f'ing hilarious!! What a number! lol
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