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Why do the bits add up to 63 rather than 64?
by olalonde 6y ago
Why do the bits add up to 63 rather than 64?
- sjansen 6y agoJust a guess without reading the code, the unused bit is probably to avoid complications from signed integers. If the sign bit is never set, signed and unsigned integers can store the same data.
- lmilcin 6y agoPresumably to make them work with languages that don't recognize unsigned integers? For example Java...