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Department of the U.S. Treasury
Urgent Memo

Today we sucesfully launched U.S. Quarter 2012 v. 1.0.4. This update was implemented via DOTUS (Department of the Treasury Update System.) The update ran as a silent install, without propmpting, and required no interaction from the end user. This delivery method was chosen to prevent any inconvenience to U.S. Quarter 2012's extensive user base. In interest of full disclosure, we are including complete patch notes below, listing the many improvements made in U.S. Quarter 2012 v. 1.0.4.

U.S. Quarter 2012 v 1.04 changes:

Aesthetics:
George Washington's hairstyle was updated, in the interest of presenting U.S. Quarter 2012 users with a sleek, modern interface.

We increased shininess by 20%, because U.S. Quarter 2012 users enjoy shininess. We though "Ah, hell. Why not?"

Numeric Function:
Corrected a bug introduced in 1.0.1 which reduced the monitary value of U.S. Quarter 2012 to 24.87 cents. U.S. Quarter 2012 is now worth exactly 25 cents, as intended. The displayed value on the face of U.S. Quarter 2012 was unaffected by the bug, and has always displayed correctly as 25 cents. As a result, the displaced value of U.S. Quarter 2012 did not require any change, and is still displayed at 25 cents.

Material:

The copper layer in the center of previous versions of U.S. Quarter 2012 has been replaced with an equally thick layer of peanut butter in U.S. Quarter 2012 v. 1.0.4. Working on George Washington's hair made us think of George Washington Carver, which in turn made us think of peanut butter, resulting in this modification. The change lessens the environmental impact of U.S. Quarter 2012 production, and increases U.S. Quarter 2012's rate of biodegradation.

Probability:

U.S. Quarter 2012 v 1.0.4 is weighted slightly to effect it's probability table. Recent polls have shown that U.S. Quarter 2012 is a popular coin for "coin flips" among U.S. Quarter 2012 users. Polls also indicate that users are 70% likely to assign the most positive "coin flip" outcome to the "heads" side of U.S. Quarter 2012. To aid our users, we have weighted the "heads" result of "coin flips", raising the probablity of heads to 78%. The less favorable "tails" result has had it's probability lowered accordingly, to 22%. In pervious versions of U.S. Quarter 2012, and its predocessors in the U.S. Quarters product line, these probabilities were set at 50% and 50%, respectively.