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0 pointshowtodowtle5y ago0 comments

Of course, 17 x 2^16 is also a multiple of 2^3:

17 x 2^16 = 17 x 2^13 x 2^3

(reposted/edited because * was interpreted as formatting)

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RedNifre5y ago· 1 in thread

In case hacker news doesn't show emoji, I meant m(

Right, I guess I was thinking more of "not a power of 2" instead of "not a multiple of 8".

On second thought, the author might have meant "Sorry that the exponent is not a multiple of 8" as in Unicode neither has 2^16 nor 2^32 code points.

kps5y ago

Agreed; they meant “not a power of 2⁸”.

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