Could someone explain:

[Lemmy]

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Originally posted by KiloOhm:
I don't get your math, your saying for 8 bit numbers, it's 280KB but for 16bit numbers it's 70MB? Your only doubling the # of bits required so You should be 560KB not 70MB...right?

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if you have 8 bits then you have 2 to the 8th possible numbers, that is 256
if you have 16 bits, you have 2 to the 16th possible numbers, that is 65535

so it's not just twice as much, the difference in bits is 16 - 8 = 8, so it is 2 to the 8th times as much

and 70 mb is of course the maximum, if you actually have 65536 systems in a map

[This message has been edited by LemmyM (edited 08 May 2001).]