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A photo of a cake with 8 candles in a row. The first and fifth candle from the right are lit. The caption reads "Happy 17th Birthday"

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[–] PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How about 4294967295?

[–] xyx@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

with 8 bit? true, with 32 bit you might have a chance to see the sun die, but.... there are just 8 candles

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 days ago

64 bits and you get to watch heat death slowly set in. (Or, y'know, cosmological catastrophe depending on the full physics)