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Is that the number of adds that don’t overflow an 8-bit result?

On that hunch, I just checked and I get 32896.

Edit: if I exclude either input being zero, I get 32385.

You also get the same number when including input zeros but excluding results above 253. But I’d bet on the author’s reason being filtering of input zeros. Maybe the NN does something bad with zeros, maybe can’t learn them for some reason.

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