Sliding Notes – 8 Bits Full Of Downloads
Last night I noticed that the number of downloads of my Hackadelic Sliding Notes has reached 256.
To a software engineer, it is one of the “magic” numbers. It corresponds to 28 (2 to the power of 8), and is the first number whose memory representation exceeds the size of a single byte.
From now on, it’ll take at least 2 bytes to count the downloads.
O.K., this might not be as big an achievement as the moonlanding, but hey! – Why miss an oportunity to celebrate?1 
- Besides, the next byte boundary crossing is at 65’536 downloads, so I’ve probably got a planty of time until the next such occasion. [↩]
