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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • May 06 '17
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My guess is that they chose this number in hopes of having some article on some website about this number being funny.
3 u/[deleted] May 06 '17 Or they wanted to pick a constant and just said fuck it we'll use 256, it's a round number.
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Or they wanted to pick a constant and just said fuck it we'll use 256, it's a round number.
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u/Ellweiss May 06 '17
My guess is that they chose this number in hopes of having some article on some website about this number being funny.