When I wrote the 1000th post for Smart Thinking, it was because of a suggestion from marketing, so I used binary for counting the top 10 posts, of course.
I then got a note from a friend pointing out this post from xkcd.com:
Now I could appreciate the cartoon, after a lot of discussion with Jeremy (MSc in Mathematics), but then I Googled for an explanation:
2637: Roman Numerals – explain xkcd
Next week – a map of the internet.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles