On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, John Rowland wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

Now, somebody tell me why there's a factory in Croydon with a number
written in binary on the roof:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...&t=k&z=19&om=1

It's not a binary number, it's an arrangement of skylights. The southern
number alternates 1s and 0s, and the northern one nearly does, which
suggests that the similarity to ones and zeroes is coincidental. If you
look at the building further north, it has similar skylights but in a
less interesting pattern.

A likely story!

I suspected this might be the case, but was hoping it was something
interesting like a computer factory. The regularity of the 0101010101
pattern is a bit of a giveaway, but i thought it might be the ethernet
preamble or someething.

tom

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