@Nine get out your fpga and load up quartus and get vhdl-ing

@Felthry I'm kinda aware that the whole 8 bit vs 16 bit is because of ease of use with doubing the amount of bits each time, to make more combinations of ones and zeros, so making say an 111bit (then 22 bit and 44 bit etc) thing would - Shit I just realised THAT ends up being largely the same as the 8 bit pattern holy crap

@Nine well yeah anything where you just keep doubling will end up having power-of-two factors, that's kind of what doubling means

@Felthry I'm acutally kinda staggered how often that shows up, I'd just never even realised it would and now I'm seeing it everywhere and it's kinda blowing my mind

@Nine are you familiar with the concept of numbers having a unique prime factorization?

@Felthry only in so far as I know that prime numbers are a thing that exist but I have no idea of how they work exactly

@Nine okay when i have more spoons (and if you're willing) i need to teach you some math

@Felthry Honestly my maths brain long since degraded years ago and I find it hard to remember a lot of ocncepts of it. I used to like it a lot but after my a-levels my brain just turned to mush on it ;; thank youy tho!

@Nine a-levels?

@Felthry uhh, not sure what the non UK equivalent is um...

so like... we do GCSEs at like... age... 15-16 I think?, then we do two years more of study for our A-level examinations which are the qualificiations you need to go into a university, or were, because now we have AS-levels which are like A-levels but ... not as 'good'?? and also vocational qualifications too which are directly linked to job types which are more valuable these days too I guess?...

@Nine GCSEs???

okay but i'm getting that it's like an entrance exam to a university or something I guess

@Nine here in the US you go through elementary school (primary school to UK people) and then middle school and high school (secondary school to UK people) and then at the end you get your high school diploma, and then depending on what university you apply to you may have to take an entrance exam to get into it but that's all handled by the university itself

then once you get your bachelor's degree you can take the GRE, which is kind of a standard entrance exam to graduate schools

@Felthry heck I have no idea what the equivalents are elsewhere @_@;;

@Nine basically just know that it's mathematically provable--quite easily, too--that any number you start with will show that same pattern when you start multiplying by two repeatedly

@Felthry that makes sense to be honest, it follows for all numbers you multiply something by providing the number you're multiplying by remains the same