Powers of 2

[Potato2017]

I think you should use something bigger than 8^8 because I already memorized many powers of 2, and I just found one that was something I already memorized, namely 2^24.

[debbie]

@Potato2017 I've only memorized the small powers up to $2^8$, plus $2^{10}$ !

[The Blade Dancer]

I sort of know up to 2048 because of that darn game. WHY CAN'T THE 256'S MATCH UP AAAAHHH

[Potato2017]

@The-Darkin-Blade lol

[The Blade Dancer]

No I'm kidding I don't think I can make it up to 256 I kinda suck

[Potato2017]

It's fine

[debbie]

@The-Darkin-Blade If you code (even a tiny bit), you might know that you can enter colors as three numbers: red, green, and blue. For example, the Daily Challenge / Expii purple is $88, 84, 104.$ And the color white is $255, 255, 255,$ because white contains every color to its full maximum.

Why is the maximum value for any color equal to $255?$ It's because computer can store $256$ different numbers in a "byte," which is the standard storage size of a piece of data. (The maximum isn't $256,$ but $255,$ since $0$ counts as the first number.)

A computer "byte" consists of $8$ bits, each of which can be "on," or "off," corresponding to whether there is an electron there or not.

So, there are $2^8 = \boxed{256}$ different numbers that a byte of memory can store!

[sqwishy]

@debbie Woah, that's so cool!

[The Blade Dancer]

There should be a collection of those posters all together

[debbie]

@The-Darkin-Blade Good suggestion! There is now a course index, and I'll be updating the index with these infographics as I make them.

[RZ923]

@debbie cool!

[Potato2017]

Cool $$$$