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estimator7292 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Laws of Software Engineering

On the one hand, in today's world asking how many bits is in an int is exactly as answerable as "how long is a piece of rope"

On the other, the right answer is 16 or 32. It's not the correct answer, strictly speaking, but it is the right one.

jandrewrogers 3 months ago | [–]

An 'int' is also 64 bits on some platforms.

fragmede 3 months ago | [–]

It's the wrong question. How many bits is uint64 is a much better question, if we're at a place where that's relevant.

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