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Created March 31, 2010 01:58
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Radix Joke
Q. Why do computer scientists always confuse Christmas and Halloween?
A. Because Oct 31 == Dec 25
(Oct is octal, or base 8; Dec is decimal, or base 10. The octal representation
of the decimal number 25 is 31.)
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