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Re:Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR ... by reitzensteinm on Saturday January 30, 2021 @01:47AM (#25966860)
You can absolutely have two ranges which require 7.5 bits to store each (0-180) and write them to 15 bits of storage.

Just because physical hardware is more or less restricted to integer bit quantities doesn't mean fractional bits aren't a useful concept.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR ... by SECProto on Saturday January 30, 2021 @02:13AM (#25967001)
Sure, I accept I was wrong, and millibits may have some niche usage. That said, the comment I was responding to was describing hardware with "4 mb" of ram. There's no confusion in that case.
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