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"Since the number is stored in a binary system, every shift to the left means the number is doubled.

At first this sounds like a strange technical obscurity"

Do we not know binary in 2026? Why is this a surprise to the intended audience?

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https://xkcd.com/2501/

How many programmers don't know binary?

Everyone who learned web dev or app dev only.

Okay, but are those people unaware that they skipped learning all the fundamentals? I was just surprised that someone would write an article that's supposed to be about a game written in assembly and throw in a line saying that binary arithmetic is a technical obscurity.

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