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by tetrep 4567 days ago
while i'm sure there's many other examples, in that particular case it's just the maximum value of an unsigned 8 bit integer, as defined above on line 1252.

it would be a bit better if it explicitly had a nice #define but recognizing the values of common powers of two (minus one) is a useful code reading skill.

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I think you mean 4bit.