Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth

kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What are you, one-based or something? If it were an 8-bit integer there would have been 255.

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  • kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    it’s 255 for maximum index, but still 256 for maximum count though lol but agreed, 255 would be more obvious

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well still 255 for maximum count if you’re using an 8-bit number to COUNT billionaires like your initial comment said - but if you’re using an 8-bit number to index your collection of billionaires, then yes, you could get up to 256.

      For counting we should always at least have the possibility of a 0 value, hence we count actual billionaires from 1-255. With indexing, 0 is already the first billionaire, so we get billionaires from 0-255, or a total of 256

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      • abir_v@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes, 8 bit indexing. We should have Null billionaires.

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