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zakblood
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some will love this as i know i did, and yes i'm a geek and proud of it[;)]
Who, what, why: Why was Psy nearly too much for YouTube?

in regards to his hit video and a 32bit code, The phrase "32-bit integer" is significant because it refers to how big a number a computer's memory can store.


and his hits on YouTube almost broke it so they had to upgrade to a 64bit system...


At the time of writing, it has had 2,155,653,764 views - which is actually a bit of a problem, as YouTube's view counter could not count beyond 2,147,483,647.


YouTube averted this by upgrading to a 64-bit integer and because computers are programmed to count up by the power of two, the new limit is 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, or more than nine quintillion.


i liked that, not the video which was rubbish tbh like his singing and dancing, but the numbers[&o][&o][&o]
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They still had a bit to use. They should have made it a 4-byte unsigned int, or long depending on your view. Now look at all those wasted bits just because they wanted to keep a wasted sign bit that makes no sense. Over half of the bits will never know the joy of becoming a 1. Forever doomed to be 0.
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