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On 17/03/2016 21:13, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> You can pretend that only 1 and 0 are enough. Good luck making THAT work.
>
> ChrisA
>

The sales and marketing "thing", for lack of a better expression, that 
was used in the UK by Racal Telecommunications during the 1990s.  Well 
I'm telling a fib, IIRC it was 0 1.  Sales and marketing did not get the 
joke about it being a "two bit company".

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence