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		NelsonMinar 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes This is ignoring the natural fact that we have 8 bit bytes because programmers have 8 fingers.

classichasclass 4 months ago | [–]

No, we still have 10. Real programmers think in octal. ;)

childintime 4 months ago | | [–]

Available. As they suck on their thumbs.

mkl 4 months ago | [–]

Most have 10. That's the reason we use base 10 for numbers, even though 12 would make a lot of things easier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal

alserio 4 months ago | [–]

ISO reserves programmers thumbs to LGTM on pull requests

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