gonna make an entirely new line of processors that bucks tradition and instead of being 8 bit, 16 bit, etc, it's gonna be multiples of 10.
10 bit. 20 bit. 40 bit. 80 bit. 160 bit. 320 bit. 640 bi-FUCK IT'S JUST THE SAME BUT WITH A 0 OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE
@Nine early computers frequently used 9- or 18-bit words
@Felthry gonna go with 11 bit multiples then :D
@Nine there's nothing stopping you i guess
@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
@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
