I blame Skyspark for this:
He's got me hooked on a generally-awesome game called Manufactoria, in which you construct programs out of conveyer belts.
That mess you see above interprets the string of dots in the robot being processed as a binary number and adds 1 to it.
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Less pieces. ;]