Comment on Emoji Under the HoodparentComments−RedNifre5yIn case hacker news doesn't show emoji, I meant m(Right, I guess I was thinking more of "not a power of 2" instead of "not a multiple of 8".On second thought, the author might have meant "Sorry that the exponent is not a multiple of 8" as in Unicode neither has 2^16 nor 2^32 code points.−kps5yAgreed; they meant “not a power of 2⁸”.
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In case hacker news doesn't show emoji, I meant m(
Right, I guess I was thinking more of "not a power of 2" instead of "not a multiple of 8".
On second thought, the author might have meant "Sorry that the exponent is not a multiple of 8" as in Unicode neither has 2^16 nor 2^32 code points.
Agreed; they meant “not a power of 2⁸”.