Valve Corporation interview question

What is 2^16?

Interview Answers

Anonymous

15 Sept 2015

Careful, it's a trick question. In most programming languages the upper bound of an unsigned integer is 65535 because counting starts at 0.

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Anonymous

3 Nov 2015

Anyone ever read Snow Crash?

Anonymous

15 Sept 2015

65536(power of 2s) All Networking folks should get that

Anonymous

6 Mar 2016

Just remember 2^10 is about 1000. 2^10*2^6 = 2^16 = 1000*64 = around 64000. Your interviewer will probably be satisfied with that. Also, you should always have a power of twos table in front of you during a technical phone interview.