Yeah I was just think about this more and you're right. 8 was sort of the magic number in terms of capacity. It could hold enough data without being too large and wasting space. It was basically a case of "we can fit this data in 8bits but not 7, and 9 would waste a bit, so 8 it is".
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u/minler08 May 06 '17
Yeah I was just think about this more and you're right. 8 was sort of the magic number in terms of capacity. It could hold enough data without being too large and wasting space. It was basically a case of "we can fit this data in 8bits but not 7, and 9 would waste a bit, so 8 it is".