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Re:How I Store My 1's and 0′s (2012) by dubya on Monday March 20, 2017 @11:29AM (#13914972)
It's widely accepted to use an apostrophe s to form the plural of single digit numbers. See, for example, https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/punctuation/apostrophe

(This comes up a lot in math for variable names too)

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Re:How I Store My 1's and 0′s (2012) by excalibur on Monday March 20, 2017 @11:40AM (#13915088)
It appears you are correct, thanks for pointing this out. It's pretty amusing that I was just schooled on grammar by somebody who calls himself "dubya". :)
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