How many iconic computing numbers can you recognize?
arhan.sh> 0x400000 > The base virtual memory address for Linux executables in hexadecimal.
I might be wrong, but isn't it the case only for x86-64 though? It looks like on other architectures .text base address might be different (It seems to be 0x08048000 on i386 for example).
I'm a huge fan of both computer science and secret messages. If that's your cup of tea, I challenge you to decipher this secret message in under 30 guesses and test your general knowledge of computing.
"214748" is given as "2^31 - 1 truncated, or the maximum value for a 32-bit signed binary integer"... this is pretty stupid IMHO.
I wanted to stay consistent with the 3-6 digits per number rule to make the challenge easier to figure out in general. There are only two numbers that are actually truncated, so hopefully it isn't that big of a problem.
That was fun. But I miss some.
105102414410138859640127147104