That's a super old article as well.
They got rightfully roasted in the comments for not knowing even the most basic things about computing.
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As a software engineer: actually there is no need for a number of people as a power of 2 unless you need exactly 1 byte to store such information which sounds ridiculous for the size of Whatsapp
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I remember thinking something similar when I was a kid modding Starcraft. Max levels/ranks in researching was 256 and I always wondered why such a weirdly specific number.
Since people are binary like the great Orange says, they have to use a power of 2?
evenly specific