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    1 year ago

    8388409 = 2^23 - 199

    I may have noticed this on a certain other aggregator site once upon a time, but I’m still none the wiser as to why.

    199 rows kind of makes sense for whatever a legitimate query might have been, but if you’re going to make up a number, why 2^23? Why subtract? Am I metaphorically barking up the wrong tree?

    Is this merely a mistyping of 8388608 and it was supposed to be ±1 row? Still the wrong (B-)tree?

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