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binary RISKS


A classic RISKS digest item. Why it's a bad idea to convert pi to binary.

Newsgroup: alt.math.recreational


If you compute it, you will be guilty of:

and all software, including the complete Windows source code)
* Trademark infringement
* Possession of child pornography
* Espionage (unauthorized possession of top secret information)
* Possession of DVD-cracking software
* Possession of threats to the President
* Possession of everyone's SSN, everyone's credit card numbers,
everyone's PIN numbers, everyone's unlisted phone numbers, and
everyone's passwords
into hiding along with Salman Rushdie.

Also, your computer will contain all of the nastiest known computer

don't want you snooping through a copy of them.

documents about the JFK assassination, a photograph of your neighbor's six
the not-yet-released Pearl Harbor movie. So just don't do it.

other real numbers.

after all.
