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kmote · 04-05-2009, 08:12 PM

Really what he is saying is a simple binary concept. Where n is the size of the variable in bits the number of values that variable can hold can be calculated by the sum 2^n. For example, if your variable is 8 bits it can have a value between 0 and 255 (or 256 values).

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