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Costumes for xmas? What? Yes, Nuri has always been ahead of her time. But no. If you’re a computer programmer, you might have seen where I’m heading with xmas costumes. Or not.

Students of engineering, physics and math, at some point, have to take several computer programming classes and it’s a joke that we confuse Halloween with Christmas. We actually don’t.

But anyway, the humor lies in the fact that Halloween occurs on October 31 and Xmas on December 25.

So we get oct 31 and dec 25. If you look at it with the mind of a computer programmer, you will read ‘oct’ as octal and ‘dec’ as decimal. Both are numeral positional systems by base. If you google for an octal to decimal converter and enter those numbers, you’ll see that they equal each other.

And on that note, 

 

if you’re going to a Halloween party this Friday and see someone dressed as santa, an elf or rudolf or … a tree … well, now you know. ( : 

Oh hey, why did the cat fall off the roof?