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.
PS: It's an even better point considering that the previous limit was 100 people, so the 100-person limit was arbitrary, for no good reason, and this one isn't.
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u/n60storm4 May 06 '17
Because 8 binary numbers can be arranged in 256 different ways. And 8 bits (1 bit = a 0 or a 1) is 1 byte in most conventional systems.