22B Name Origin
06 May 2005, 08:43 PM
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22B Name Origin
Found this quote tonight from wrx.co.uk. What do you think?
The name itself is an enigma. Many journalists jumped to the mistaken assumption that 22 referred to the 2.2 litre engine and the B stood for Bilstein, the car’s suspension manufacturers. The truth is 22B is hexadecimal (number base 16, used in the coding of computer programmes where the letter A to F are used for the numbers 10 to 15) for 555.
To prove this, take a calculator and add the following into the memory…
2x16x16 = 512
2x16 = 32
B = 11
Total = 555
The name itself is an enigma. Many journalists jumped to the mistaken assumption that 22 referred to the 2.2 litre engine and the B stood for Bilstein, the car’s suspension manufacturers. The truth is 22B is hexadecimal (number base 16, used in the coding of computer programmes where the letter A to F are used for the numbers 10 to 15) for 555.
To prove this, take a calculator and add the following into the memory…
2x16x16 = 512
2x16 = 32
B = 11
Total = 555
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