Thread: OT: Hacking Silly Civvy Mappy Sizes
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Old July 10th, 2006, 11:52 AM
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Default Re: OT: Hacking Silly Civvy Mappy Sizes
Sorry narf, couldn't help this (I teach computers and math)....

For memory reasons the numbers for most such things are usually 2 to some power minus 1, because zero is always counted. For instance, the RGB colors each go from 0 up to 255 (2 to the 8th power minus 1). So, the number you refer to in your original post is indeed 32767: 2 to the 15th power minus 1.
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