On Mon, 22 May 2023, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

 number; for (human) display it is subdivided into four 8 bit chunks
(called "octets" for obvious reasons), and those octets only can
go from 0 to 255 (since 2^8 == 255).

Nit, but 2^8 is 256.

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