On Tue, 1 Dec 2015 23:03:59 +0000, J O Skip Robinson <[email protected]> 
wrote:

>(This whole season feels like Friday.) A doughnut, on the other hand, requires 
>the hole for its very definition. The hole supplies no mass or nutritional 
>value, but without it the thing is not a doughnut. By contrast a punch card 
>requires the solid part to give the holes meaning; they would otherwise 
>collapse into gibberish. 
>

In school we verified that if you multi-punch every possible punch out of a 
card, the result is indeed very fragile.  But it was fun to dupe

Dana

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