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Whats the significance of them?Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostI need to time my departure from work carefully tonight - I really want 32767 and / or 32768Bazza gets caught
Socrates - "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
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I still don't have a development environment or any work to do. As far as I can tell, the earliest I might be able to actually do something will be Thursday morning.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View Post32767 = (2^15) - 1 = 111111111111111 binary
32768 = 2^15 = 1000000000000000 binary

I hate numbers....
Bazza gets caught
Socrates - "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
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"Here's the science..."Originally posted by cailin maith View PostWhats the significance of them?
32767 is the exact value of 32k.
From a sad, techie perspective that makes it an interesting number.
32768 is 32k + 1 which on some systems would cause a buffer overflow error.
32767 is the maximum length of a character string in an Oracle database, so one more than that would cause it to error.Comment
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post"Here's the science..."
32767 is the exact value of 32k.
From a sad, techie perspective that makes it an interesting number.
32768 is 32k + 1 which on some systems would cause a buffer overflow error.
32767 is the maximum length of a character string in an Oracle database, so one more than that would cause it to error.
Bazza gets caught
Socrates - "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
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Originally posted by Diver View PostI was on a rig out in the bristol channel laying an outfall pipeline at Barry in south wales.
Also tried to pull my own tooth once with pliers. never ever try this at home folks.
Crushed tooth, exposed nerve and had to go to the hospital

<shakes head in dismay.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View Post32767 = (2^15) - 1 = 111 1111 1111 1111 binary = 7FFF hex
32768 = 2^15 = 1000 0000 0000 0000 binary = 8000 hex
Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post"Here's the science..."
32767 is the exact value of 32k.
From a sad, techie perspective that makes it an interesting number.
32768 is 32k + 1 which on some systems would cause a buffer overflow error.
32767 is the maximum length of a character string in an Oracle database, so one more than that would cause it to error.My explanation is much more user friendly!Originally posted by cailin maith View Post
I hate numbers....Comment
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