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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by IgorPartola on Thursday May 22, 2014 @03:36PM (#7785928)
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/195/

Edit: I wish there was an updated version.

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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by danielweber on Thursday May 22, 2014 @04:40PM (#7786364)
What is that way of ordering numbers called? If I knew the name I could google it but that's what I'm missing.
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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by Coincoin on Thursday May 22, 2014 @04:47PM (#7786410)
It's called a Hilbert Curve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve

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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by tbrownaw on Thursday May 22, 2014 @04:46PM (#7786401)
It's a variety of space-filling curve.

That's enough to find out that this particular one is called a Hilbert curve.

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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by Cameron_D on Thursday May 22, 2014 @08:31PM (#7787415)
http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/images.html

This page has similar images from 2012

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