第四十七案

The Origin of All

(抱歉，本页尚未译为中文。)

Painted on the tiles of a lavatory near Java master Bawan’s office: ^*

^* Some observations by the Editor:

This means that every binary number has both sex chromosomes, except for numbers of the form (2^n)-1 where n >= 0.
It also means that bitwise complement (~) is the Sex-Change Operation.
It would be natural to assign gender to binary integers as follows: even numbers (ending in 0) are female, and odd numbers (ending in 1) are male. But speaking personally, I would find it disconcerting if someone referred to the anatomical feature that defines my sexuality as my Least Significant Bit.