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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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[-] Aedius@lavraievie.social 3 points 6 months ago

Because if you add 1 to 1111111 it will overflow and give 0000000 so you have to have the baby in 1 year exactly

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ahh, because of the 9 month gestation. 9+3=12

I thought this was about some kind of obscure subnormal float convention or something.

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