Q: Why do programmers always get Christmas and Halloween mixed up?

Tue Nov 2 02:59:14 UTC 2010

On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:09:02 -0400
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 01:14:40AM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
> > A: Because DEC 25 = OCT 31
> >
> > Ok how many of you confirmed the result? :)
> 
> I think your joke is a couple od decades out of date.  Who uses octal
> anymore?

Lennart,

   The funny thing is that I have the book The Human Science of Phrenology, by O.S.Fowler.  I cannot make out the publication date, but it appears to be sometime in the 1880s.  The book is completely comprehensive, going as far as to advocate that the Octal system of arithmetic far surpasses the decimal system.  I am not sure that this has to do with the science of phrenology. 

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