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8388608

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-21 20:20

Anyone know what's so special about the number 8388608? On some site I can't get more points than 8388608, it SHOULD be going higher, but it seems like 8388608 is some limit.

I thought if it was going to stop me it would stop me at around 64K (smallint in database) or let me to to 2billion+

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-21 20:36

>>1
8388608 = 2^23

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-21 20:42

>>2
Yeah but why would it try to stop me at that number?

Would it be something in their database? or their script? or something else?

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-21 20:44

>>3
I'll check, but I have a feeling that it's the maximum signed float.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-21 20:56

The representation of a MIPS floating-point number is shown below, where s is the sign of the floating-point number (1 meaning negative), exponent is the value of the 8-bit exponent field (including the sign of the exponent), and fraction is the 23-bit number.

In C, floats are single precision

These formats go beyond MIPS. They are part of the IEEE 754 floating-point standard, found in virtually every computer invented since 1980.

--
References:
p191-193, Computer Organization and Design 3rd Edition, Patterson & Hennessy

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-21 21:00

>>4
Thanks. What's even stranger though I just found out I CAN get higher than 8388608 by using referrals >.< Thing is there shouldn't be a limit to how many points I can get without any referrals.

My other account got up to 8976678.000 (around 600K from referrals)

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-21 21:16

>>6
Probably an increase of your score by 1 is rounded down to the same number due to the limited float precision (eg. 8388609 and 8388608 have the same representation in IEEE single-precision float), while an increase by a larger amount will not be rounded down.

Using a float to save an entire score is dumb, though. Should have used bigints. Whoever coded this has not reached Satori yet.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-21 21:20

>>7
Referrals give me 10% of the score of the people I refer. I guess they just calculate it once every few hours or something.

I'm gonna see what happens if i'm over 2^23 and loose a point, Hope I don't drop back down to 2^23

Should have my score over it in an hour or so, don't wanna mess with my other account.

Thanks for the help :)

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-21 21:23

It's the number of bytes in 8 MB.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-21 21:25

>>8
I'm gonna see what happens if i'm over 2^23 and loose a point, Hope I don't drop back down to 2^23
I'd expect it to stay identical, if it's only by one point. It's like adding 300 and 1 when your accuracy is limited to two digits; in float notation it becomes 3.0*10^2 + 1.0*10^0 which is 3.01*10^2; rounded back to 3.0*10^2 when you take two digits.
Thanks for the help :)
I HELPED HIM!

Name: op 2009-06-21 21:27

>>9
I sure hope they aren't storing our points as files with 1 byte for each point >_>

lol, but yeah that was the first thing I figured out from the number.

Name: op 2009-06-21 21:30

>>10
That would be SWEET!!! score can't go down then! xD Unless it goes down by alot in 1 go... Guess i'll find out eventually.

Name: op 2009-06-21 21:47

hmm... had 8390200 lost 1 and went to 8390199

Guess It's gonna work fine I just can't earn single points maybe?

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-21 23:05

......points?

Name: op 2009-06-21 23:23

>>14
Yeah, as in (multiple)(single point)

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-22 1:57

What the fuck is this shit?

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-22 15:36

>>12
xD

Back to AIM, please

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-27 1:46

Name: Anonymous 2013-04-22 22:28

aye

Name: Anonymous 2013-04-23 0:23

what was the game?

Name: Anonymous 2013-04-23 0:44

When counting up from 0, 8388608+1 is the number where goyim start to feel uneasy that the number is getting too large and thereby approaching infinity, the concept of which they don't understand. In this case, the number was most likely chosen as an upper limit by a Jewish developer who wanted his gentile consumers to feel comfortable with his product.

Name: Anonymous 2013-04-23 1:02

>>22
I almost sniggered.
I know you're not a Jew, but if you were, I'd totally approve your racism. I support every racist.

Name: Anonymous 2013-04-23 2:27

256*256*256/2 = 8388608
mystery solved ^^

Name: Anonymous 2013-04-23 11:37

le 8086 face

Name: Anonymous 2013-04-23 12:47

>>1

$ printf "%x\n" 8388608
800000
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin11)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$

Name: Anonymous 2013-04-23 12:54

>>26
why not 0x1000000?

Name: Anonymous 2013-04-23 12:57

apple-darwin11o
You don't belong here, >>26-san.

Name: Anonymous 2013-04-23 12:58

223

Name: Anonymous 2013-04-23 12:59

>>28
Do you prefer darwin10?

Name: Anonymous 2013-04-23 13:02

>>30
I prefer /polecat kebabs/

Name: Anonymous 2013-04-23 13:07

>>31
I like mine with satay sauce.

Name: Anonymous 2013-04-23 13:14

% gcc --version
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Name: Anonymous 2013-04-23 13:32

2013
not using Lisp-Machine OS

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