The election result of the LDP presidential election is "like an IP address" topic: IT trivia that can be used from tomorrow - ITmedia NEWS
The Liberal Democratic Party held the "Liberal Democratic Party Presidential Election 2021" on September 29th. Among four candidates, Taro Kono, Fumio Kishida, Sanae Takaichi, and Seiko Noda, Fumio Kishida was elected as the new president. On the other hand, the table of the results of the first round of counting the votes has become a hot topic in some circles as "like an IP address."
Presidential election resultsWhat is attracting attention are the "member votes" by members of the Diet belonging to the party and the "party member votes" by members of the Liberal Democratic Party nationwide. It's an arranged table. The characters for "Vote" are small and look like dots when viewed from a distance, so "86.146.114.34", "169.110.74.29", "255.256.188.63", and so on, are likely IP addresses (IPv4). looks like a string.
In the case of IPv4, IP addresses are represented by converting 32-bit data into decimal numbers by 8-bits. Numbers that can be expressed in 8 bits range from 0 to 255. The results of this poll look like IP addresses because each number is separated by three digits and most were 255 or less.
However, only "255.256.188.63" does not exist in IPv4 because it includes 256. On Twitter, there are also voices saying "I'm sorry" and "Overflow".
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