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13 May 2008

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   [...] And
instead of ASCII they wrote ASC2 ! 
 I would have expected ASKIE.... 
. . . or ASKY

I get really annoyed with those who think that it is a Roman Numeral 2.
I used to tell my students that if they were ever in a class where the
instructor called it ASCII TWO, that they should walk out then and there,
and get a refund.  That's worse than thinking that a megabyte is
2^10 * 10^3

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