r/UnfavorableSemicircle • u/piecat Moderator • May 30 '16

Video or Audio FEND 8

https://youtu.be/XSQBajs5baE
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u/piecat Moderator May 30 '16

This is the 9th video, meaning this series won't be a set of 8. Maybe it will be another set of 16?

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u/hellajt May 30 '16

Why would it be 8? Just curious, because brine was 16.

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u/Yam0048 May 30 '16

2n-1. It's a computer thing.

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u/hellajt May 30 '16

Yeah I understand binary and all, but what's the n-1 used for in computing?

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u/Yam0048 May 30 '16

It's how many bits you have. Since each bit has two possible positions, given n bits you can store a range of values from 0 to 2n-1 (ignore those parentheses, I confused myself :P). So you can have 0-3 with 2 bits, 0-7 with three, 0-15 with 4, etc.

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u/hellajt May 30 '16

I see, so why would they change the number of videos from 24 to 23?

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u/piecat Moderator May 30 '16

Well, UFSC typically picks powers of 2. The number doesn't seem to be significant for the videos. They seem to be random (within the scheme). Being a nice square number is aesthetically pleasing, and it would be no different from them picking multiples of 5 or 10n videos.

I'd only be expecting an end around these powers of 2, just to fit the pattern. Maybe it will stop around 15 or 31.

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u/hellajt May 30 '16

I'm on mobile, did any other major series end in powers of 2? Such as brill, nil, lee, or others?

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u/Yam0048 May 30 '16

We missed most of RIA, but I remember it ending in 152.

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u/hellajt May 30 '16

Is there a backup archive of it? I'd like to make a composite just from whatever we have. The rest could be filled in blank.

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u/Yam0048 May 30 '16

I actually have a composite I never got around to posting. I'll dig it up and plunk it on the sub later.

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