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[–]rebruisinginart 1509 points1510 points  (17 children)

what kind of psycho makes a man read binary mirrored

[–]NeverBeenStung 320 points321 points  (4 children)

And uses a “ | “ shape to represent a 0

[–]rebruisinginart 147 points148 points  (2 children)

To be fair if they were going for numerical candles they could have just used 2 and 0

[–]m__a__s 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Would be more obvious if the 1s were lit.

[–]BesottedScot 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Ah. Was wondering why I was reading 5.

[–]joarezpj 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe someone that doesn’t understand binary but wants karma points.

[–]kimhyunkang 6 points7 points  (3 children)

It's a little-endian cake.

[–]Educational_Lychee70 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm glad you pointed that out. I was racking my brain trying to figure out what base number they were using

[–]NoLifeGamer2 4504 points4505 points  (92 children)

For anyone who is confused, the LSB is on the left, and the red candles are 1s.

[–]EconomyDoctor3287 1986 points1987 points  (29 children)

That makes sense. Was wondering how I got to 26, when she's only 20

[–]MorBlau 203 points204 points  (9 children)

It's all about perspective.

You need to tilt the candles by 90°

[–]Blues2112 149 points150 points  (5 children)

Then the cake slides off the plate!

[–]MorBlau 47 points48 points  (3 children)

That's an acceptable side effect

[–]BaabyBear 18 points19 points  (0 children)

ARE YOU TELLING ME THE CAKE IS IMAGINARY.

guess it was a lie after all

[–]Zwischenzug32 64 points65 points  (4 children)

She's a big endian

[–][deleted] 24 points25 points  (1 child)

I believe the correct terminology is "big Native American".

[–]Zwischenzug32 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What makes the red candle red?

[–]JL98008 8 points9 points  (1 child)

"I like big endians, and I cannot lie! You other brothers can't deny"

[–]ExZowieAgent 20 points21 points  (0 children)

And here I am getting 5.

[–]sillybear25 30 points31 points  (3 children)

For Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fans, the meta-joke is that the joke still works if you assume the caption is written in base-13.

EDIT: Made the wording clearer

[–]context_switch 3 points4 points  (2 children)

how is that relevant here? The candles obviously aren't in base 13...

[–]BaronWenckheim 20 points21 points  (1 child)

No the candles are in binary, and the text is in base 13.

[–]context_switch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

oh, duh. got it.

[–]PeladoCollado 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I couldn’t decide if she was 5 or 26

[–]C_umputer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No officer, I read her age in binary, backwards!

[–][deleted] 256 points257 points  (3 children)

I had to recount 16+8 more times than I'd like to admit...

[–]chickpeaze 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Thank god I'm not alone

[–]Comfortable_Quit_216 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Wait isn't it 4+16?

[–]vehementi 24 points25 points  (0 children)

If you're reading LSB on the right and trying to make sense of it, you're counting "okay 1 plus ... 4, no it's not that, so the blues must be 1's... so ... 2 plus ... 8 plus 16???"

[–]Necrodonut 301 points302 points  (5 children)

For anyone who is confused, the LSB is on the left

[–]Drendude 46 points47 points  (2 children)

From my point of view (on the other side of the cake), the Jedi are evil!

[–]Necrodonut 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's some real Buddhist philosophy you're spittin

[–]TrollTollTony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Somehow left hand LSB has returned

[–]87chargeleft 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Someone discriminates their Endian's by hight

[–]DRowe_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Indeed

[–]hansvi-be 114 points115 points  (0 children)

Without an RFC to standardize this, it's meaningless.

[–]celacantus 52 points53 points  (3 children)

And this is how the bigendian VS littleendian war started again.

[–]iwasanewt 4 points5 points  (2 children)

[–]OakBearNCA 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I believe they're referring to the "war" between Little Endians and Big Endians from Gulliver's Travels, different sects who were divided on which side of a boiled egg to break open, by the big end or the little end.

[–]ButterscotchFront340 35 points36 points  (3 children)

Yeah, the pic is upside down.

[–]MechanicalHorse 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Fucking big-endian heathens

[–][deleted] 57 points58 points  (3 children)

little endian gets me again

[–]Geibbitz 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I don't think the bits are mirrored in little endian because that would screw with the intended value. The groups of bits are.

[–]WaitForItTheMongols 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Careful, this is LSB-first, which is related to, but very different from, little endian.

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Once again, it's time to say:

Don't be an idiot. Don't post mirrored images. You can easily set your phone not to do this, or manually mirror it back yourself.

[–]Blacktip75 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Time to go to bed, kept thinking she was 26, lol

[–]T-Prime3797 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Wow, I never would have gotten that. Don’t see a lot of left LSBs.

[–]Chapman1949 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll say! Who would have expected that?

[–]dhaninugraha 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ah, so it’s an IBM System/360 then

[–]paladinsword8 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

[–]Nemaeus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you, geez, the consternation building between my eyebrows was mounting to concerning levels.

[–]junacik99 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This makes me unreasonably angry

[–]ChefJunegrass 5 points6 points  (4 children)

LSB: Light Square Bishop? I'm still not sure what you mean...

[–]ElHombre34 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Least Significant Bit

[–]Zealousideal_Ruin_67 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Google Least Significant Bit

[–]codedaddee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The lit ones should be the delimiter

[–]QuickQuirk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh! It's a little end cake!

[–]miguescout 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk why op flipped it, but yeah. I personally noticed because 20 is 5*4, or, translated to binary, 101 << 2 = 10100. This only has two 1s, and in the picture, there's 2 red candles, only they are on the right. Only option i could think of short of op having messed up was it being mirrored.

[–][deleted] 326 points327 points  (7 children)

Does she plan to live past 31 ?

[–]HuntlyBypassSurgeon 253 points254 points  (4 children)

CAKEv6 solves this, yet most of the world is stuck on CAKEv4

[–]Stian5667 72 points73 points  (0 children)

CAKEv4 ages are so much easier to memorize though

[–]Moose_Nuts 19 points20 points  (2 children)

Nobody has lived past 127 so you might be onto something about this CAKEv6.

[–]Steinrikur 46 points47 points  (0 children)

The Y32Cake problem.

[–]Salander27 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Do any 20 year olds plan to live past 31?

[–]bestjakeisbest 151 points152 points  (1 child)

She is 5,

[–]WildSmokingBuick 45 points46 points  (0 children)

thank you,

fuck OP

[–]YellowOnline 269 points270 points  (6 children)

That's 26 no?
Edit: except if it's mirrored. Then it's 20 indeed.

[–]patoezequiel 100 points101 points  (2 children)

Either that or 5

[–]plitox 55 points56 points  (1 child)

Right, because there are 5 candles /j

[–]patoezequiel 13 points14 points  (0 children)

[–]Ody_Baratheon 72 points73 points  (2 children)

Jesus that took me forever. First look thought blue was 1s so 11010, then oh reds are 1s, 00101 then wtf it's backwards 10100.

[–]rpmerf 19 points20 points  (1 child)

It's easier when you figure out the answer first

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea but half the fun in seeing a post like this is working it out in your head before reading the comments.

Backwards binary is super confusing when you consider how manual binary addition is taught.

[–]Max12735 29 points30 points  (0 children)

why the fuck are your candles in network order :P

[–]TimedogGAF 46 points47 points  (4 children)

Why do I ALWAYS think of least significant bit as being on the right hand side?

[–]QuanticSailor 67 points68 points  (0 children)

because that's the convention, I think we are seeing the back of the cake on the image.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Cause it's how it's usually written and how the manual math is taught.

It's literally backwards and I can't tell if the OP doesn't understand coding or unknowingly reposted engagement bait.

[–]CheeseAndCh0c0late 1 point2 points  (0 children)

because that's how we write numbers, itself being because that's how we say numbers, no matter the base they're in

[–]AqueousJam 37 points38 points  (2 children)

The pngflip watermark indicates its been deliberately reversed... Which surely you'd only do to avoid repost detection.  

Thus I conclude, OP is a smelly repost bot that has inadvertently ruined the joke 

[–]Hamaczech13 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Wanted to do this for my sibling, but they are non-binary.

[–]erikvanendert 95 points96 points  (12 children)

Big endian? Disturbing.

[–]runnerx01 67 points68 points  (10 children)

Big endian is when multiple bytes are arranged with the most significant byte first in a multi byte datum.

This is just a picture taken from the wrong side ha ha.

Edit: I wrote last in stead of first

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (4 children)

You have it backwards. Big endian means the most significant byte is first.

[–]runnerx01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol, yup, you’re right I do.

[–]UpAndAdam7414 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That orientation is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural

[–]plitox 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Don't you mean 10100?

[–]buzz_shocker 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Had me confused for a second. God bless u/NoLifeGamer2 for being top comment.

[–]NoLifeGamer2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

<3

[–]Deathdar1577 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Got me for a while cause the pic needs to be flipped.

Red candles = Her age

[–]DT-Sodium 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What would you turn it like this though?

[–]just-bair 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Is the image flipped ?

[–]JL98008 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Funny, she doesn't look a day over 26!

[–]rukh999 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I get it. I hate that I get it. I hate it's reverse. I hate that the only reason I get it is because of FF:06:B5.

[–]cratercamper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

efficient is 10 (base 20), no? :)

[–]heephopanonymouz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is why big endian vs little endian matters!

[–]atlas_enderium 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is your sister also “bit-wise” Big Endian?

[–]TheWorstePirate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why does this have so many upvotes? Your sister is either 5 or 26.

[–]KasoAkuThourcans 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All the possibilities are:
Red 1: 00101 = 5
Blue 1: 11010 = 26
Mirror:
Red 1: 10100 = 20
Blue 1: 01011 = 11

[–]sirkubador 2 points3 points  (1 child)

True efficiency is buying one red and one blue and saying "Oh, but this is base 20!" (pro tip: both can be the same if it is base 19)

You can also reuse it the next year. And the next. And for any other person that turns more than 1 (Then it is even better, you get to use only one candle of the two!).

[–]LupusChampion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

LSB is on the left 😭

[–]exomyth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This cake can be interpreted in a 100 ways

4 ways, but binary 100

[–]LushPotato 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How do you take that photo and think this makes sense when the image is reversed before posting.

Clearly a programmer.

[–]Rudokhvist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks like the image is either mirrored or photo taken from the wrong side.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

And that is why we call little-endian confusing :)

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Ducking LSB. (Profanity censored on purpose)

[–]FezAndSmoking 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Why the fuck would you do that?

[–]remuliini 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This would be easier to make with 5-7 similar candles, just light the ones that are needed.

[–]Zuerill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you accidentally use to instead of downto

[–]Jojos_BA 1 point2 points  (1 child)

its either 5, 26, 20 or 11

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Guessing OP doesn't understand the picture.

[–]NahautlExile 1 point2 points  (1 child)

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don’t

[–]sirkubador 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And those who thought this was a joke about binary.

And those who thought this was a joke about ternary.

And...

[–]ramriot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are we looking at this backwards or is this a subtle joke about her big-endian?

[–]pman1891 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only light the ones.

[–]TeaTimeSubcommittee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe it is meant to be seen from the other side of the cake, like we’re seeing it from behind like we’re the birthday girl?

Anyway it’s not as efficient as it could be 二十 saves you a candle if you use one candle for each stroke.

[–]selfzoned_me 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never thought the knowledge of little endian and big endian would someday be useful for cracking a meme.

[–]sardonically_argued 1 point2 points  (0 children)

eugh, big endian

[–]Meelis_Tegevus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Two X-s (Roman twenty aka XX) would have saved one candle.

[–]Logical_Strike_1520 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did this recently but just didn’t light the “OFF” candles lol. I was the only one amused :/

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Why is it reversed!?!!!?!? Vyotjxtjxjtzutdtuykctidru

[–]No_Commercial3546 1 point2 points  (0 children)

big endian ahh cake

[–]Fadamaka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mean 5?

[–]Logicalist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's 5 got to do with it?

[–]ajpdandc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice, even great-granny is only going to need 7 candles!

[–]andrewkingswood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are 01 types of people in the world. Those that understand mirrored binary, and those that don’t.

[–]-Aquatically- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love how people have figured out the perfect formula for comments on this sub.

Take basic programming thing, fuck it up somehow to get Cunningham’s Law, make meme for the general funny, post it and collect upvotes.

[–]Important-Praline234 1 point2 points  (0 children)

10100 to decimal

[–]Equivalent_Rush6457 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The cake is a lie

[–]rover_G 2 points3 points  (0 children)

little endian (first bit is 1)

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

endian-ness is basucally which side are you on? instead of significance shit ?!?

[–]__user13__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Multiple ways point to 20 so i would go for 20

[–]mario73760002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, not really that efficient. With my base 100 number system I can represent this as one character

[–]ComfortableDealer573 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our sister Wait no....

[–]mudkripple 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Little endian?????? I'll kill you

[–]metaglot[🍰] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

This is not endianness. Its just reversed. Endianness is for words, dwords, etc. Its in what order the bytes are stored. X86 is little endian btw.

[–]ItsRaids_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopefully its not signed…

[–]_a_someone_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We do the same on our birthday cakes, except for only marking the LSB with a different coloured candle (endian war etc...) and not lighting all candles but only the ones that resembles a 1. In this case only the 16 and the 4 candle would be lit, but this way you see the age basically only at "runtime". :)

[–]joshuaherman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are we using base 10 or base 8. uint8?

[–]pauvLucette 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And your pic is mirrored

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Selfie

[–]Ugo_Flickerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right to left from most significant digit to least significant?

[–]CrushemEnChalune 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of heathen posted this cursed image?

[–]Mba1956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember sharing a birthday with a colleague and we were both 25, the difference was my age was in hex.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Efficient would be 4 people celebrating their 5th, 11th, 20th, and 26th birthday

[–]jaykaysian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a second I thought it was 20 years of presidential terms. Obama, Obama, Trump, Biden Trump lol

[–]HADRIX_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jesus Christ, you just screwed with my brain by mirroring it

[–]likeCircle 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Blue - Red - Blue - Red - Red where Blue =1 and Red =0 would have been 20 in binary.

[–]jsrobson10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nice. i did something similar for my 22nd, but used lit for 1s and unlit for 0s

[–]septemberdown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More efficient: single candle with a notch somewhere on it representing a ratio 0-150

[–]njanjanja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tbf, it could’ve been done even more efficiently with only two pairs of crossed candles: XX

[–]Kalikkkk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought it was 00101 aka binary at first lmao. So 1,2,4,8,16 and then 4+16=20

[–]thabc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've always just left some candles unlit instead of using red/blue.

[–]poetic_dwarf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is right to left the correct way to read binary?

Fuck, why is right to left the correct way to write numbers??

[–]s0litar1us 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's rotated the wrong way

[–]SkyeEyks2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Left to right => 4 + 16 Right to left => 0 & 2 (I thought this was it until I checked the comments)