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dudu24 • yesterday at 6:56 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

If you have a ruler and it goes to 12 inches, you should normalize by the length L and not by 13, the number of points on the ruler.

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Timwi • yesterday at 8:54 PM

I'm confused by that analogy. Is the “ruler” a 255-inch ruler with 256 points labeled 0–255, or is it a 256-inch ruler with 256 1-inch segments, making L = 256×1?

m463 • today at 12:44 AM

the correct way is to use a slide rule

layer8 • yesterday at 10:12 PM

But who says that the numbers are representing the points, rather than representing the intervals between the points?

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lacedeconstruct • yesterday at 7:10 PM

yes but >> 8 is so much faster

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groundzeros2015 • yesterday at 7:11 PM

I’m dumb. Doesn’t 0 start at the beginning?

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