Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:55:41 05/09/05
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On May 09, 2005 at 10:04:41, James Swafford wrote: >I am glad you asked this question. I've always used 250 it's >worked out ok, but I've never proven to myself that 250 is a safe >bound. > >Is anybody using a hard limit > 250? 255 is used in several engines. It is an obvious choice because an unsigned char can still hold it (0-255). For that reason, there is very little expense to it. You could easily make it 256, by adding 1 to the unsigned char (minimum of zero makes no sense, after all) but the added complexity has nothing of importance to offer since 218 is the maximum anyone has achieved and so 256 is very unlikely to occur.
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