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anabolic_geometry 🌟 2026-03-01 03:55 🇵🇹

"Old programmers instinctively recognize powers of two, but a younger generation of higher level programmers often don’t. I was pleasantly surprised when my young son was considering 16 and 32 ‘neat’ numbers. It was due to Minecraft." - John Carmack

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sleepy_clement 🌟 2026-03-01 05:27 🇦🇺

Powers of 2 bring intrinsic joy, and so do 2^n - 1 and similar things (looking at you, maximum value for a channel in RGB being 255)

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industry 🌟 2026-03-01 05:23 🇦🇺

I love powers of two :D

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hexa 🌟 2026-03-01 10:08 🇮🇪

2048 is responsible for me having up to 4096 memorised

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