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You might be a programmer

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Or you’re addicted to 2048 the game

[–] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How many if you think's do I need to pass o become a programmer?

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 days ago

You will find the answer to your question in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

256 is a nice round number, or 65536.

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And if you don't like it because it's round, you're probably a group theorist (although it actually doesn't get intractable until slightly higher powers of 2 IIRC).

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago
[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago