<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime" class="u-url mention">@<span>fasterthanlime</span></a></span> 48-bit quantities remind me that within this century I worked on a system where sizeof(int) was 1 and sizeof(long) was 2, because CHAR_BIT was 24. We ended up doing a lot of string processing in UCS-3.</p>