• someguy3@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Huh interesting. Why 2^31? I thought it was done in things like 2^32. We could have pushed this to 2106.

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      1 year ago

      Signed integers. The number indeed goes to 2^32 but the second half is reserved for negative numbers.

      With 8 bit numbers for simplicity:

      0 means 0.
      127 means 127 (last number before 2^(7)).
      128 means -128.
      255 means -1.