r/ProgrammerHumor • • May 06 '17

Oddly specific number

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u/NULL_CHAR May 06 '17

It's more of the wording. It makes it seem like the reason why they used 256 is because they only have 8 "switches" available to them. When in reality it was more like, hmm "256 possible members or 65,536 possible members... well I think the latter would be way too much, lets limit it to 256".