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Re:Don't use 1234 as your password by vezzy-fnord on Sunday November 17, 2013 @08:52PM (#6752060)
He's right. Decimal 5 is binary 101, hence 3 bits.

I wasn't literally referring to data bit, though. But he has a point.

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Re:Don't use 1234 as your password by joe_inferno on Sunday November 17, 2013 @09:08PM (#6752106)
yeah, that's not why, but good enough I guess.
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