FoxTrot by Bill Amend for August 26, 2007

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Jason: Check out the uber-cool calculator I got for school! Peter: I thought you said calculators are for wimps. Jason: This one's different - notice anything? Peter: It only has three buttons. Jason: Yup. "Zero," "one" and "enter". You have to input everything in binary format, and to do calculations, you have to write your own routines in machine language, bit by bit. I'll demonstrate. Ask me to compute something. Peter: On a scale of one to ten, how dorky do I think you are? Jason: It's a calculator, not a mind-reader. Peter: I'll help you out - push these two keys...