Sophoz wrote:
The reason the number seems so special is because it is FFFF in Hex. That is why the maximum number of rows in excel is 65535, the programers used a 4 bit register to define the row number. So the 10th row would be 000A (in computers memory, hex) or row 65535 is (FFFF). You can do conversions using the calculator on your computer. If this number is maximum for anything dealing with computers, I would gurantee it is because it was written using 4 bit registers.
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God, I bet you thought you'd look sooo intelligent, didn't you?
But, no, instead you made yourself look like a doofus.
How so?
Simple - it's
2 BYTES or
16 bits not, as you incorrectly state, 4 bits.
4bits can only store numbers between 0 and 15 (inclusive) making everything you say wrong by a factor of 4369!
(don't ask me why I needed to edit this - It's 1:55 in the morning here as I type this...)
(oh, and don't get me started on that bollox list of 65535 is... crap - "65535 is roughly 2gb" - like WTF?!?!?! (even assuming you mean gigabits, not gigabytes) you seriously need to go back to school when it comes to your knowledge of computers! hell, just your knowledge of basic math - since when has 65535 been anywhere near 2million? and your English ain't that great either)
(and then there's the stuff you said elsewhere about numbers being sent to the server in hex, rather than decimal ?????? - they're sent as neither - they're sent as binary)
Last edited by Scorpion0x17 (2006-04-14 18:06:09)