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it's a little more complicated than that.

• patrickthebold 7y ago
  how so?
  • ouid 7y ago
    well I can hold somewhat arbitrarily large integers in memory with the ackermann function, for instance.
    • slavik81 7y ago
      If I've read between the lines correctly, your point is that N bits allows you to represent 2^N values, but they don't have to be the values from 0 to 2^N.
      • ouid 7y ago
        yes, sorry for being terse.