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by RedNifre 1914 days ago
In case hacker news doesn't show emoji, I meant m(

Right, I guess I was thinking more of "not a power of 2" instead of "not a multiple of 8".

On second thought, the author might have meant "Sorry that the exponent is not a multiple of 8" as in Unicode neither has 2^16 nor 2^32 code points.

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Agreed; they meant “not a power of 2⁸”.