How to decode this binary message? [closed]

Question

When my best friend wrote his yearbook message to me in 5-bit binary, I didn't the slightest idea of how to translate it. Can anyone please tell me what he could have possibly said?

00001 01010 01101 00000 10001 11000 01010 10010 00111 00000 10001 00011. -01001 00000 01010 00100 01100 00111 00000 00110 10010!

Answer 1

5 bit bcd with a=0 gives what initially looks like gibberish, though with a bit of playing around, you can pull out the phrase BINARY IS HARD. -JAKE MHAGS!, where MHAGS is presumably a misspelling of Jake's last name. Note that the educated guessing involved fixing numerous typos, inserting spaces, etc.
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