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by ndsipa_pomu 1332 days ago
0, 1, 3, 4 and infinity - there's four numbers in this industry.

Five There's five numbers in this industry 0, 1, 3, 4, 5 and infinity

Wait, I'll come in again

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0, 1, 7, and indeterminate, IME.

The 7 being for design. If there are more than 7 boxes on the whiteboard, try again.

ah, log base 2 of 7 is 127 bits (aka 8, y 1).

Unicode character can have more than 7 font boxes associated with one character box and still be a valid determinate character form.

thought the industry was broken down in 8 bit increments (0, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc)

log base 2 of 4 is only 16bits