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spiralganglion on Sept 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Programmers' Day

That's the number of distinct values you get with 8 bits. Since there is no "zeroth" day of the year, it makes sense to have it on the 256th day instead of the 255th.

forther on Sept 13, 2011 [–]

yep. I just commented on exact wiki words.

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