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Droobfest 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is x & -x equal to the largest power of 2 that...

This immediately reads like gobbledygook to me, while the parent is easy to follow.

I’m not trying to dunk on you, but I can’t help to note that the denseness of math is too much for an idiot like me.

schoen 6 months ago [–]

It might be nicer with exponents rendered as superscripts, because it could make it more apparent how the exponents are being used.

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