On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 12:16:09PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/22/23 03:32, Tim Woodall wrote: > > On Mon, 22 May 2023, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > number; for (human) display it is subdivided into four 8 bit chunks > > > (called "octets" for obvious reasons), and those octets only can > > > go from 0 to 255 (since 2^8 == 255). > > > > > Nit, but 2^8 is 256. > > > > . > The octets count from base 0 Tim.
That's right, but then they go 0 .. 2^8 - 1. 2^8 is still 256, Tim does have a point there :-) Cheers -- t
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