Oops! Andrew Trevorrow <andrew@trevorrow.com> got 0xdeadbeef first! At 05:01 PM 11/5/2018, Henry Baker wrote:

A digital salute for this entry!

I love the concept of a date conversion fault! A computer scientist spends far more time dealing with faults than with actual data.

Perhaps some hex number -- e.g., 0xdeadbeef (often used to find stuff in hex dumps)

0xdeadbeef = -559,038,737 ----------- The problem with something like the least positive IEEE float is that it won't last very long (we hope).

At 03:23 PM 11/5/2018, Kerry Mitchell wrote:

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On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 4:20 PM Brent Meeker <meekerdb@verizon.net> wrote:

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I memorized 2.302581 early on, ln(10), to convert to base e.

Brent

This is a natural choice. Following Pi Day tradition, ln(10) ~ 2.30 can be memorialized annually on February 30. :-)

Kerry