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Re: Dumb question...

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Originally Posted by ay2b View Post
Ah, but which actually weighs more, a 1 or a 0? If you go with historical precedence (i.e. back to the punchcard days), I believe a "0" was unpunched and a "1" was punched, which means that a 0 weighs more than a 1.
Both were punched. 12(very top), 11, 0 .. 9 (very bottom). If 0 wasn't punched you couldn't distinguish between a composite that used 0 and one that did not.

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