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You know you're a tech nerd when 256 sounds more even than 250 or 300. ๐
It kind of is "more even".
256 is just 2โธ
250 is 2x5ยณ
300 is 2ยฒx3ยนx5ยฒ
Any division of 256 with an integer and integer result will be even. Most divisions of 250 and 300 with an integer and integer result will be odd.
Even that is odd.
256/256 is not even
Disregarding the trivial exceptions... waves hands
Or a maths nerd!
Or when it's bothering you that it's 256 and not 255... aren't we counting 0 anymore? :/
Or when it's bothering you that people forget the difference between counting and indexing.
You can index to 255 in an 8 bit number, but your count is still 256 when you get there.
Fair point ๐
If there are two things I hate in this world, they're off by one errors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero:_The_Biography_of_a_Dangerous_Idea
One of the most annoying books I ever read. Every page made me feel stupider and more uneducated.
Superficially, this book looks like one that I would enjoy (if not for your anti-recommendation causing me to steer clear). Because of this, I would wager that you would have an interesting answer to "if someone was considering the above book, what's a book you would recommend they read instead?".
In the spirit of "take a book, leave a book", one of my favourite non-fiction books for a general audience is "Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life". This recommendation is beyond the topic of the current thread, but in terms of enjoyable books that made me feel smarter, I love this one; I read it as a biochemistry undergraduate, and I was surprised at how much I learned from it.
Thanks for the suggestion.