Fable Model Nails a Programmer Joke: Why Oct 31 = Dec 25
arjunrajlab · x · 2026-09-19
arjunrajlab shares a surprisingly good joke from the Fable model:
> Why do mathematicians mix up Halloween and Christmas? Because Oct 31 = Dec 25.
The punchline is a base-conversion pun: 31 in octal equals 25 in decimal (Oct = octal, Dec = decimal). The author says he only unearthed this gem after probing a bit further and calls Fable's answer unexpectedly delightful.
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