• thirteene@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Its a quirk in binary math with 8 digits. If you “roll the odometer” past 0, it resets to 255

     0000 0011 (3)
    -0000 0001 (1)
    =0000 0010 (2)
    
     0000 0000 (0)
    -0000 0001 (1)
    =1111 1111 (255)