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This union was not meant to be. (lemmy.world)
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[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

My car uses an even more fucked scale. It tops out at 63, of all numbers.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago

It's because the volume is stored in a 2^6

[–] NecroParagon@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My Corolla goes up one from 63 to "max" , which is a number I've never heard of.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I was thinking maybe it has to do with 0-63 being 64 numbers which could be a small convenient bit storage. But that's 6 fucking bits which as far as I know nothing really stores in values lower than a byte. Maybe there is some chip somewhere and 6 bits are used for volume and the other bits are getting used for other things. It's still a very weird value to have

[–] cows_are_underrated@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Even a fucking boolean is stored in a byte.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Right? A 6bit number makes so little sense. Where'd the other bits go, what did they do with them, why can't we have a full byte??