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A photo of a cake with 8 candles in a row. The first and fifth candle from the right are lit. The caption reads "Happy 17th Birthday"

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[–] HairyHarry@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

00100001

Am I being dumb? How ist that the same forward and backwards?

[–] wieson@feddit.org 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you drop leading zeros as you would in decimal

[–] HairyHarry@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Damn. I AM dumb.