alt Hacker NewsGoing through it & really enjoyed it. 2147483647 is a great exhibit. Funny how a number you recognise from debugging has a whole other life in mathematics. A museum for numbers is a lovely idea.
Going through it & really enjoyed it. 2147483647 is a great exhibit. Funny how a number you recognise from debugging has a whole other life in mathematics. A museum for numbers is a lovely idea.
> 2147483647
It's also known as the most common phone number on the web[0], because of programmers trying to store phone numbers as 32 bit integers, and hitting overflow.
[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2196421