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esoterica
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Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI...
Neither of those numbers are correct. Firstly, exponentiation is right associative so 8^8^16 ≠ (8^8)^16 ≈ 3.94e+115.
Secondly, that number is wrong anyway. The correct number is (2^16)^(8*8).
jniedrauer
on Feb 28, 2020
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Yeah apparently each pixel of a 16-bit image can have 256 different colors. Oops.
messe
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That's an 8-bit image. Each pixel of a 16-bit image could have 2^16 = 65536 possible colours.
jniedrauer
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I give up. I shouldn't post before having coffee.
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Secondly, that number is wrong anyway. The correct number is (2^16)^(8*8).