Numbers in the news

[cnoocy]

I am fascinated by the HD-DVD encoding key that is making the rounds of all the tech news. (Digg is a good source at the moment.) It's a number that's small enough to be tractable, but not obvious. I'm posting this so I can get back to work instead of spending the day looking for compact/elegant mathematical ways to express the number. (Something that's easy to memorize, say.) Feel free to try it yourselves!

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[amabaku.livejournal.com]

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/05/01/09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b/

not really as you requested but cute.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

I tried treating them as unicode, but out of 8 16-bit characters, the 4th is in the private use area (in CSUR, it's a digit in Zirinka, which doesn't seem to have digits) and the 5th is a High Surrogate. (The others are the Bengali currency symbol for a 16th, a piece of Hangul Jamo, and 4 obscure Unihan characters.)

[cnoocy]

The CSUR is a little scary sometimes.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

 How about as an image, one byte per line? Here it is doubled in height and width.

[cnoocy]

That's intriguingly coherent, if not memorizable. Is it solvable as a paint-by-numbers?