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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by tuatoru on Thursday October 27, 2022 @11:53PM (#33367482)
0, 1, 7, and indeterminate, IME.

The 7 being for design. If there are more than 7 boxes on the whiteboard, try again.

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by sargstuff on Friday October 28, 2022 @10:19PM (#33380353)
ah, log base 2 of 7 is 127 bits (aka 8, y 1).

Unicode character can have more than 7 font boxes associated with one character box and still be a valid determinate character form.

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