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A worthy successor to the 65535 Excel bug.
One of the many random numbers that live rent free in my head lol
There is nothing random at all about that number! It's the largest number that can be represented by sixteen bits, i.e., (2^16 - 1).
Every number is random.
No
even then the number was actually stored correctly, it's just excel lies to you and shows you a different number.
This AI will stack wrong calculations on top of wrong calculations and cascade everything.