Going through it & really enjoyed it.
2147483647 is a great exhibit. Funny how a number you recognise from debugging has a whole other life in mathematics. A museum for numbers is a lovely idea.
It's also known as the most common phone number on the web[0], because of programmers trying to store phone numbers as 32 bit integers, and hitting overflow.
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It's also known as the most common phone number on the web[0], because of programmers trying to store phone numbers as 32 bit integers, and hitting overflow.
[0]<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2196421">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2196421
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