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My new TV maxes out at 120 and I hate it. What sort of scale is that?
Especially considering that anything in excess of about 12 is deafening.
My car uses an even more fucked scale. It tops out at 63, of all numbers.
It's because the volume is stored in a 2^6
My Corolla goes up one from 63 to "max" , which is a number I've never heard of.
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
Even a fucking boolean is stored in a byte.
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??
Hyundai?
Mazda