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On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> w=
rote:
> On 2011-11-21, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Like the old joke:
>>
>> =A0 There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand
>> =A0 binary numbers, and those who don't.
>
> OK, it's not _much_ of a joke, but I don't get to use it very often,
> so I couldn't let it go (for one thing, it only works in "print").

On a scale of 1 to 10, what is the probability that this is in binary?

There's plenty of great binary jokes going around.

ChrisA