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by netmare 789 days ago
That's like a programming language with 0.5-based array indexing.
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It's the classic "off by half" index bug.
Doing the mental math is a lot harder, too. Any halfway decent computer nerd knows on some level that 2^10=1024, but 1/2^10=0.0009765625.

Doesn't quite lock into the memory banks so easily.

No fence post problems if you just put each post in the middle of each span!