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Rockfax is pleased to announce a new grading system launching on its Rockfax Digital guidebook app platform as of today. Grades will henceforth be listed in binary to fit with the brand's forward-thinking, digital approach to climbing data, replacing the current decimal positional numeral system with a much more intuitive format.

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If E1 is E1, surely HVS is E0. Which also solves the TPS grade conundrum.

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Fools

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"The change affects all grading systems, with the exception of the US Dewey Decimal System, because it is already too complicated and stupid."

finally someone had to say it.

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This system will work great with the new Peak ethic being sold to us over at https://bananafingers.co.uk/collections/peak-district-essentials

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Wow, we did a new -E10 at Lawrencefield yesterday, that's a good effort.

To get that minus grade, would we have to have reverse climbed it from top down though?

In reply to Andy Hardy:

My feeling exactly. Although the step from HVS to E1 has always felt worth two grades, so perhaps it makes sense after all.

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Should have really gone with qubits instead of bits. That way, a single qubit grade could be anything from Mod through VDiff to E11 in superposition, ending all grading disputes forever.

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01000010 01110101 01110100 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01100111 01110010 01100001 01100100 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01010100 01101000 01110010 01100101 01100101 00100000 01010000 01100101 01100010 01100010 01101100 01100101 00100000 01010011 01101100 01100001 01100010 00111111

In reply to planetmarshall:

01000101 00110000

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But what is the new grade of Three Pebble Slab???

In reply to Derek Ryden:

But then TPS would be two grades harder than TPS!

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I hope E-grader gets updated shortly. 

In reply to Sean Kelly:

Easier, because it's now 11 Pebble Slab.

Sigh...

In reply to Frank R.:

More than that, until you climb the route, the grade is just a superposition of all possible grades with a probability distribution as shown in the UKC logbooks. Only when you actually climb the route does the grade-function collapse down to a single value that's right for you on that day. There's also some evidence that nearby routes are entangled and once you've climb one the uncertainty of adjacent routes becomes well defined. Perhaps.

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Nice on UKC. Just out of interest, was the BBC's "House of Games" part of the input for this please? It's just not that often you hear jokes about binary.

In reply to Mark Collins:

At a tangent, I wonder how many "coders" or ex-coders of this parish still have or had the little Casio solar powered calculator that you could convert decimal to binary, octal or hexadecimal.

If you had one you'll know the calculator I mean.

In reply to Michael Hood:

Not sure. Mine is stuck on 5318008 for some reason.

In reply to UKC News: is there a down climbing grade system for those of us that fail but don’t want to fall off?

In reply to planetmarshall:

Ah, 5407708

In reply to Sean Kelly:

HVD 5a

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I've always used a binary grading system: I can't do it, or I can do it...

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Can the management at UKC say if there is any truth in the rumour that Elon Musk is set buy a controlling interest in UKC and rename the site X-treem?

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I read the headline too quickly whilst on lunch and thought it was cracking a trans joke! Thank god I understood the actual meaning of binary code! Rather then the non-binary, that I initially thought. That was a relief!

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Finally I've caught up with McCleod and Pearson! All those years of climbing finally paid dividends!

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Then I remembered the date. Us aging Diff climbers breath again

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Maths and climbing. Can't get better.