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Re:Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs by perl4ever on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:26PM (#23186925)
Counterpoint, 2^638 is a large number. So a particular 638 bits is very particular.
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Re:Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs by willis936 on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:18PM (#23196219)
This is meaningless. Information is information. Specifying a size has virtually no information. The number "638" stored in uint16 has two bits of information using any word size between 8 and 15 bits.
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