Happy arbitrary number day!
The number 256 (28) was chosen because it is the number of distinct values that can be represented with an eight-bit byte, a value well-known to programmers. 256 is also the highest power of two that is less than 365, the number of days in a common year.
256 is divisible by 8, which is big in programming. For the most part it is arbitrary though considering as General said they could have used the others as well
Today is the 256th day of the year!
The fact that it's divisible by 8 doesn't matter, it's that it's a power of 2
wouldn't it be the 255th day because arrays start with 0
Well then, I need to sharpen up in that case.No, because
256 values is important, not the number 255the zero-indexed thing isn't even universal
ah, thanks