Powers of two

[ciphergoth]

I can't remember what made me think of this, but there's a bit in Snow Crash about powers of two, and I wondered if things had changed, and that people deal in higher level stuff than this these days. And it's just striking and a bit weird anyway that some people have had occasion to memorize this stuff, I wondered if you had...

[Poll #1217360]

Update: The "powers of two" are just 1+1 = 2, 2+2 = 4, 4+4 = 8, 8+8 = 16 and so on.

Update: it seems like it isn't clear from the above, so for the avoidance of doubt, no-one should feel that they should know this off by heart!

Comments

[ex-pipistre.livejournal.com]

I don't know by heart, but can generate them in my head, so yesish.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

My family had a Commodore 64 when I was young, and I spent quite a lot of time writing assorted programs on it, mostly in BASIC. The powers of two (and some other related magic numbers) turned up an awful lot — in decimal — and I wound up memorizing them without particularly trying.