Owlet puzzle #34
Released Saturday, August 8, 2026 UTC
65536
the answer for puzzle #34
The five clues
- A five-digit number.
- The number of distinct values a 16-bit unsigned integer can take.
- 2¹⁶.
- Also 4⁸, 16⁴, and 256².
- The knot in every C programmer's stomach when a short overflows.
Backstory
65536 = 2¹⁶. It counts the range of an unsigned 16-bit integer — every short int in the world lives here.
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