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Comment by piazz

4 months ago

I can’t explain why but “He’s assigning 128 to a string called Q” made me absolutely lose it.

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arlyle  4 months ago

ksimple is eight bit. 128 is the unsigned middle or one plus signed max. usually using it for null or error signal. on sixty for bit k implementations it would be two to the sixty three.

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