• smitten
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    3 days ago

    I’m not actually, just that a binary integer that overflows at 60 couldn’t exist, hence the 5.907 whatever bit length

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      2 days ago

      oh, that’s actually clever. And I’m saying that as a software engineer. I missed that possibility :)

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        2 days ago

        I should have phrased it differently, like “Ah yes, the well known 5.9068905956 bit integer.” But thanks