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Fingers or fists? (the choice of decimal or binary representation)

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    cover image Communications of the ACM
    Communications of the ACM  Volume 2, Issue 12
    Dec. 1959
    23 pages
    ISSN:0001-0782
    EISSN:1557-7317
    DOI:10.1145/368518
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    • Alan J. Perlis
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