Computers operate with base 2 calculations making 256 as “normal” a number to computers and those who work closely with them as 100 is to most humans.
256 is not arbitrary. The author thought it was arbitrary. The commenter said “Yikes” in response to the author not knowing the thing in the field that they report in was actually completely planned and not remotely arbitrary.
If they had increased the chat size to 317, being neither a rounded number in the base 10 or base 2 system and having no significant meaning in general communication it could safely be classified as “arbitrary” meaning the original headline would be appropriate and the commenter likely wouldn’t have said “Yikes.”
2^8 = 256
Computers operate with base 2 calculations making 256 as “normal” a number to computers and those who work closely with them as 100 is to most humans.
256 is not arbitrary. The author thought it was arbitrary. The commenter said “Yikes” in response to the author not knowing the thing in the field that they report in was actually completely planned and not remotely arbitrary.
If they had increased the chat size to 317, being neither a rounded number in the base 10 or base 2 system and having no significant meaning in general communication it could safely be classified as “arbitrary” meaning the original headline would be appropriate and the commenter likely wouldn’t have said “Yikes.”
The tech writer did not say “Yikes.”
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