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<summary>Try to imagine a world without computers. </summary>
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<summary>Just finishing off the chapter on bit syntax and pattern matching over bit strings for our Erlang book. We wanted to put in a realistic example, and chose a TCP segment as described here. 
It&apos;s amazing how expressive the notation can be ...</summary>
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It&apos;s amazing how expressive the notation can be ...
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