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[email protected] greenpjs@neo.rr.com is offline
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Default Binday Day, 11/01/11

On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:43:23 -0500, "
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Conjuring up a name for this Nov 11th?

63?

No, it's 37.


You mean '77'? I'd buy '3F', or even '333', but *never* '77'.
DEC was buried decades back. ;-)

Oops. When I wrote 37, I was thinking we were still talking about
11/01/11 instead of 11/11/11. (110111 = 0x37. That same binary
being 63 octal). So, how does 63 represent 11/11/11?