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I was always wondering about weird dimension choice. Why on Earth they are 88*31? Okay, 88 is divisible by 8 and 8 is bits per byte and we can bit-map one row t
by SergeAx 4y ago
I was always wondering about weird dimension choice. Why on Earth they are 88*31? Okay, 88 is divisible by 8 and 8 is bits per byte and we can bit-map one row to 11 bytes maybe, using gif paletted compression. But why 31? Why not 32, which is at least a power of 2?
- tuxone 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27518478 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27518478
- corobo 4y agoSummary: Dunno. Back in the day Geocities required sites to link back to their homepage and this was one of the image sizes they provided. The linked article/comments answer when they appeared but not why that size. Lots of guesses, no solid answers.