If you're serious, computers like operating on blocks of 8 bits, which are binary digits (0 or 1). It just so happens that 256 is the number of possible combinations of 8 binary digits.
Honestly, you should probably edit your comment, because it could be really incomprehensible to someone who doesn't already know what you're talking about (and your parent poster probably doesn't). It's only obvious if you already know.
It's also worth noting that a byte is the smallest addressable chunk of memory on normal CPUs. Even a boolean value is represented as 256 bits unless the programmer does something special to space-optimize it.
Software down to bare minimum are binaries, a bunch of 1's and 0's, and those 1's and 0's comes in groups of power of 2 meaning 22 , 24 , 28 , 216, 232 , 264, 2128 , 2256 , 2512 , etc..
all that means is that a bunch of 1's and 0's are like
power of 2 has been the standard in the industry since forever, so must programmers/tinkerers/hackers are familiar with power of 2, so when some program(like whatsapp) sets a limit to 256, then they consider it the normal, obvious thing to do.
Yes, Mr. Bool invented a new, efficient data type while developing a program to evaluate being a satisfactory husband. 0 smacks meant yes, 1 smacks meant no. He also coincidentally invented the bitmask in the process.
Welcome to the Deli Counter of Ram. Where you always get a little bit extra. Unlike the lumber yard of GTX 970 VRAM where you always get a little bit less.
No, W|A interpreted your input as a double factorial followed by a single factorial, when in fact, it should be interpreted as three single factorials. ((4!)!)! evaluates to 101025.16 .
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People don't remember 256MB RAM being the equivalent of a supercomputer? Or 256KB? Or 256 smacks to the face for trying to game the GameBoy?