• @[email protected]
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    65 days ago

    What are you, one-based or something? If it were an 8-bit integer there would have been 255.

    • make -j8
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      65 days ago

      it’s 255 for maximum index, but still 256 for maximum count though lol but agreed, 255 would be more obvious

      • @[email protected]
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        35 days ago

        Well still 255 for maximum count if you’re using an 8-bit number to COUNT billionaires like your initial comment said - but if you’re using an 8-bit number to index your collection of billionaires, then yes, you could get up to 256.

        For counting we should always at least have the possibility of a 0 value, hence we count actual billionaires from 1-255. With indexing, 0 is already the first billionaire, so we get billionaires from 0-255, or a total of 256