OT: Hacking Silly Civvy Mappy Sizes

[Cipher7071]

Sorry narf, couldn't help this (I teach computers and math)....

For memory reasons the numbers for most such things are usually 2 to some power minus 1, because zero is always counted. For instance, the RGB colors each go from 0 up to 255 (2 to the 8th power minus 1). So, the number you refer to in your original post is indeed 32767: 2 to the 15th power minus 1.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Not nessasarily. See, if the 'zero' slot is filled with data, then the number of slots that can be filled with data is indeed 32,768.

So there.

[Cipher7071]

Right. I guess we're talking about the same thing after all.