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by charcircuit 230 days ago
>A register is a tiny slot inside the CPU. It holds a number the CPU is using right now

What's your issue with this? Would you prefer it mentioned the x86 register doesn't always correspond to the same place in the register file?

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There's nothing wrong with it but most people striving to do this would make each bit clickable to detail or something so that you can read at your level. I imagine this was a constraint of the site framework or the author's writing style.

But hey what the heck, it's fine. An LLM can rewrite it to whatever level of knowledge you like so the deepest level is optimal.