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[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

Powers of two are the roundest of numbers.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

They're not round, they're square!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Only every other one...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Slow Clap Well done!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Much later in my career I came to appreciate the beauty of this system and the link with hexadecimal. I had to debug a network transmitted CRC that was endian flipped and in that process learned that in the Galois Field of two, 1+1=0 which feels delightfully nonsensical to a luddite.

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