Off Topic: Governor General's Coat of Arms has a binary stream [was: OT-GG binary]

[Ijaaz A. Ullah]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:21 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> | From: teddy mills <teddymills-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>
> | http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Personal_Coat_of_Arms_of_Governor_General_of_Canada_David_Lloyd_Johnston.jpg.jpg
> |
> | any ideas?
>
> What's with the .jpg.jpg suffix?
>
> The bitstream is:
>  110010111001001010100100111010011
>
> 33 bits long.  Unlikely to be a fixed-width character set.
>
> Googling shows me that /. covered this:
>  <http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/04/0334211/The-Binary-Code-In-Canadas-Gov-Gen-Coat-of-Arms>
>
> My favourite pair of comments:
>
>    110010111001001010100100111010011 is 33 successive digits of pi (in
>    decimal/binary/ternary/etc.). Cunningly, he did not choose the first
>    33 digits, of course.
>
>    Neither the 33 last. I can tell because I just checked it.

I saw that earlier today too, I was about to post the same thing here :)
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