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		mhartl on March 2, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What is your best programmer joke? The original joke goes like this: `Why is 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 8 [ate] 9.` In octal, this reads "Because 7 10 11", which doesn't work because our tendency is to read it as decimal, yielding "seven ten eleven".

hkmurakami on March 2, 2013 [–]

Thanks! now it all makes sense :)

Fishkins on March 2, 2013 | [–]

I like another variant of the joke (which would work in octal): Q: Why was 6 afraid of 7? A: Because 7 was a registered 6 offender

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