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Don't grow older than 255 or else it will overflow
(thelemmy.club)
A photo of a cake with 8 candles in a row. The first and fifth candle from the right are lit. The caption reads "Happy 17th Birthday"
Maybe this is a signed cake, so one can celebrate negative birthdays of people who aren't born yet. 🤔
Light all the candles as an announcement that you're gonna start having kids and hope she'll get pregnant in exactly three months. Not in 2, not in 4, but in 3 precisely.
You win Lemmy, I need this one explained.
Longer explanation:
Because most computers use two's complement to make negative numbers. To produce -x, you take x, flip all the bits, and then add 1. Conveniently, this process works both ways, so if you have an
intwith a positive MSB, i.e.1*******, that's a negative number, and if you invert and add 1, you get the positive number.So if you take
11111111, and apply this process, you get00000001, which equals 1. Thus,11111111= -1Secondly, the gestation period of humans is 9 months, and there are 12 months in a year.
So if you have binary candles and all of them lit, that can suggest, which it does in my previous comment, that you're celebrating a child's -1st birthday.
@CanadaPlus
Because if you add 1 to 1111111 it will overflow and give 0000000 so you have to have the baby in 1 year exactly
Ahh, because of the 9 month gestation. 9+3=12
I thought this was about some kind of obscure subnormal float convention or something.
Given that typical gestation time is less than one year, that involves some planning and determination.