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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:34:43 -0700
Subject: Re: Balanced trees
From: Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com>
To: Rhodri James <rhodri@wildebst.org.uk>
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Rhodri James <rhodri@wildebst.org.uk> wrote:
> 65536 is a suspiciously round number.  You might want to double-
> check that there's no 16-bit overflow causing something unexpected.

It's because I'm using powers of 2.  All the numbers in the report are
round in hex.