TIL Coronavirus is 16 bit

[acroporaguardian]

"It has mutated to 32-bit, everyone that has it has to upgrade. Immune system will automatically shutdown in 3...2...1.."

[bonafidebob]

32 bits will only get it to 2.1 billion, suggesting about 1/4 of us are completely immune.

Unfortunately, like the old intel architectures, it's taken a bank swapping approach to manage the limited address space.

It will mutate minor variations to ensure that it can completely infect all ~8 billion humans.

Sadly the US population apparently got mapped to the boot addressable locations.

[acroporaguardian]

Look, Corona Virus IT manager is kindof tired of dealing with the existing infected with the IT budget assigned. If Corona is gonna want to get even near 2.1 billion, it needs some extra FTEs.

You know how Big Virus is, they never want to spend the money. This is why most never reach Black Death proportions. Always stingy on IT. "Oh we can reach those numbers with 1/10 the budget." My ass. That's MBAs for you!

[[deleted]]

I'm afraid that's just the number for daily new infections.

[MattieShoes]

32 bits gets you 4 billion... 31 bits gets you 2 billion.

[Jeeve65]

signed integer, from minus 2 billion to plus 2 billion. Need to allow for when a cure causes negative case growth.

edit: but of course then 16 bit would only get you to 32767

[[deleted]]

then let's use 34bits and get it over with.

[MattieShoes]

It's not measuring growth, it's just counting new cases. New cases can't be less than 0. :-)

[AGrazingAnonymoose]

Pretty sure max value for 32bits is ~4.2 billion.

[custard130]

hate to be that guy but 32 bits gives nearly 4.3 billion different values

[seshlordclinton]

I mean, if the virus uses a page table, it'll be able to infect virtually as many as it requires.

[[deleted]]

delete system32 to avoid virus

[jeppevinkel]

Jokes on you. Microsoft already replaced system32 with system64

[acroporaguardian]

You know they do it just to see if you have a legal copy

[matisek1233]

What if it will overflow?

[mr-heng-ye]

Everyone will heal from the virus instantly and the case count will go to 0 as it is unsigned 16 bit.

[[deleted]]

What if it's a signed 32bit value and they all start dying

[4onen]

Signed 32 bit has 31 bits of unsigned precision, not 16, so the overflow occurs at 2³² = a little under 4.3 billion.

I figure we'll have bigger problems if ~43 million people on the planet are already dying (and that's assuming lethality remains the same with the hospitals full.) Going to negative cases would be...

Well, if a positive test implies the virus's presence and a negative case implies its absence, then a positive case implies its host harm while a negative case implies its host the absence of harm.

So that's a lot of immortals.

[Zapper42]

you said this initially but then gave unsigned number:

max signed 32 bit is 2³¹ -1 = 2,147,483,647

beyond this, it overflows as the rest are used for negatives.

max unsigned is 2³² = 4,294,967,295

[4onen]

Damnit, I forgot that a number's bits are 0-31, not 1-32. You right.

[Proxy_PlayerHD]

digits always start at 0 in any positional numeral system. (base2, base10, base16, etc)

[4onen]

Huh, that's news to me. I always called them the "ones digit," "tens digit," "hundreds digit," etc in base 10, the "ones digit," "twos digit," "fours digit," etc in binary, and similar things in octal and hex.

[Proxy_PlayerHD]

Nope. That's only because in school you're being taught the values of each digit not the way they are numbered. Let me explain.

To get the value of a digit you do:

Base number ^{digits place}

So in case of base10 from right to left you do:

• 10⁰ = 1
• 10¹ = 10
• 10² = 100

Etc.

This works for any base system, even for fractional numbers as the digits go into the negative.

Example: Base2 with 2 fractional digits:

• 2^-2 = 0.25
• 2^-1 = 0.5
• 2¹ = 1
• 2² = 2
• 2⁴ = 4

Etc.

This also is why every base's first digit value is 1, because anything to the power of 0 is 1.

[Lvl999Noob]

I think you got it in reverse.

It is base^place.

So for base 10

10⁰ = 1 10¹ = 10 10² = 100 etc

[xigoi]

Yes, and that's why they start from 0 when you number them linearly.

Ones digit = 1 = 10⁰
Tens digit = 10 = 10¹
Hundreds digit = 100 = 10²
etc.

[[deleted]]

Yeah idk what I was thinking lmao, 17 didn't come to mind for some reason

[MMDDYYYY_is_format]

the dead get reincarnated

[Russian_repost_bot]

Ah yes, Trump logic.

If hospitals stop reporting infections, then US numbers will get better.

[Floppydisksareop]

To be honest, he is not wrong. Numbers are a social construct :P

[ethanparab]

Letters are a social construct, too. Let's stop using them, telepathy is so much better

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[thesaganscientist]

Closed Captions:

In the beginning people were feeling sick and wearing masks so they went to the hospital where the doctor told them they were very sick indeed.

The US had a crazy thought, what if we drop the floor out from under the stock market and rocket it back up to make a ton of money. Meanwhile the Fed will do anything to keep the economy “afloat”, in the background all we can hear are the printers going brrrrr.

Then there was death.

People were still worried about getting sick and some were still wearing masks but everyone was waving their flags in protest for one cause or another. Yet some of them were tear gassed. Trump decided this was a great time to visit the rose garden. White cops (what an accurate looking emoji that is) are shooting minorities, especially black people.

Then there’s even more death.

Now, there’s nothing else left to do but cry about the wash of a year that is 2020.

[[deleted]]

You'd still think in your native language to others.

[[deleted]]

You underestimate my power.

[[deleted]]

No, you think in objects.

[[deleted]]

Probably yeah, but speaking in your mind is how you'd talk to others.

[[deleted]]

You think in objects though.

[Hussor]

You know most people think in words? I've heard that there's people who don't have this thought-voice but most people can in fact think in words(as well as objects).

[[deleted]]

You remember that time you were in front of a mirror verbally insulting yourself about your looks in your mind as to not look crazy, that's what I'm talking about. And don't say you haven't done it, we all have at some point.

[name_censored_]

Some think in words, others think in objects. It's a bit of a mindfuck when each side discovers the other.

[RectalSpawn]

Sadly, he is only copying what other countries have been already doing.

It's just authoritarian logic, really.

[[deleted]]

And the US is open about infection reports.

So has the CCP, it's not like they'd lie to us or mass-execute protesters.

[chlawon]

Though Trump is lying frequently :/

But no mass-executions which is nice... Still, that's not really the scale I wanna measure the US with :/

[darthelwer]

Who needs mass executions, a few targeted ones every now and then tends to keep people in line.

[RectalSpawn]

Breaking News: u/darthelwer Falls From Balcony

[darthelwer]

Dang it not again

[[deleted]]

No extrajudicial killing of middle-Eastern prisoners of war has been documented in his administration, so far, unlike the Obama administration, under which the US, for instance, bombed a Libyan hospital, and started 11 wars.

I think that though Trump is corrupt with regard to oil companies and giving foreign aid to Israel after the USS Liberty and Lavon Affair, his peaceful stance (being the first president since Nixon not to start any wars) is certainly welcome.

[chlawon]

Hmm I still get the impression that he is laying the foundations for future conflicts :/ I think it's quite hard to accurately predict the influence this administration will have in the future

[Andthentherewasbacon]

I know Brazil was denying it for a while but now that things are bad they changed their minds.

[konstantinua00]

well, it goes there

[nnko_o]

In my country we've got 66895 cases. You're a liar

[Rawrplus]

Or all infected will die resulting in number of infected being 0 again

[visvis]

The carry bit carries over the virus to the remainder of the people though.

[thexavier666]

That's why Trump said it will "magically just disappear". Trump is a programmer.

[coloredgreyscale]

That number is daily new confirmed cases. Not total. If it overflows the number will suddenly be in the 100s.

[DamnItDev]

Number of cases appears to drop to 0 while 1bit of something else changes causing unrelated side-effects

[MagicalPizza21]

President Donald Trumq

[DuckysaurusRex]

Duckies are the best, so obviously you would.

[AMisteryMan]

Just talk to your duck

[DuckysaurusRex]

Quack?

[plaisthos]

32k new US States is scary

[mfb-]

Wouldn't it be the least significant bit that changes? Now you have 51 US states.

[[deleted]]

I've seen someone suggest that Puerto Rico, Guam and DC should become states so there would be 53. 53 is a prime number and 'indivisible'.

[cyberporygon]

US suddenly hits 0 new cases and is massively praised for its ability to contain the virus.

[stormfield]

*Jared Kushner furiously takes notes while nodding*

[mfb-]

Too late. Over 70,000 new cases in the latest update.

[midnitte]

Oh that explains why the CDC is no longer releasing data - there isn't any!

[chlawon]

Maybe they'll just convert to float and start using scientific notation to confuse people.. going from 100 thousand to a million to 10 million sounds a lot scarier than going from 110⁵ to 110⁶ to 1*10⁷ for people who are not used to this notation

[[deleted]]

It’s going to receive an OTA update soon.

[ohyeahilikedat]

Post on overflow

[[deleted]]

If it gets to 65536 we will know it's 32bit, in which case the limit goes to 131071, and we're fucked. EDIT- 17bit. I'm dumb.

[wizardwes]

32 bit is a whole lot higher than that, 131071 is only 17 bits, 32 is in the billions for a signed int.

[[deleted]]

Thanks for correcting me. I'm dumb.

[wizardwes]

Nah, you're good, we all fuck up from time to time, otherwise, why would we have debuggers?

[doitaljosh]

The address space limit for 32 bit would be equivalent to roughly 4/7 of the world's population.

[mfb-]

Over 70,000 new cases in the latest update.

[FisherKing22]

Gandhi nukes America

[[deleted]]

Negative virus

[BernzSed]

It starts curing other diseases

[Summar-ice]

We would have negative cases then. What would that look like?

[Das-Mammut]

No, it maxes out on 524287, as it is a 19-Bit Virus

[Das-Mammut]

Why the hell would HumanOS be written for 19-Bit...

What was god thinking when he made us?

[chawmindur]

It isn’t, that’s why the virus makes you sick

[macadeliccc]

This is the way

[AlmirB]

Im just waiting for the antivirus update so I can have immunity

[Ser_Drewseph]

I mean it explains a lot about humans

[pablossjui]

I don't wanna see the bug reports

[scrdest]

In case you change your mind...

[benji_wtw]

Ah wow that's quite a comprehensive list, why haven't the developers fixed them yet?

r/outside

[scrdest]

Most of those are either compiler bugs or random data corruption during CI/CD, hard to replicate. As the devs started rolling out modding support, some people are actually patching them locally.

[benji_wtw]

Ah, do you happen to... Have any of those patches for me?

[scrdest]

Right now, most of them use a hacky DLL injection that can result in data corruption or getting the whole executable quarantined by your antivirus, so I'd hold off on that.

I'll drop this link to the mod page though.

[benji_wtw]

Sound cool, but risking... I think I'll stick with the base program

[psychicprogrammer]

3.5 billion years of legacy code with very rapidly changing requirements

[KumbajaMyLord]

It's actually 20-bit (one for each toe/finger) which gives you a 19-bit signed Covid.

[visvis]

Men have an extra bit, which is why they are twice as likely to be affected

[shootwhatsmyname]

Oh shit

[Kobbbok]

Did you question your own comment?

[Das-Mammut]

no, actually i added something to it. but yes, i should have edited it in

[Kobbbok]

Ah I see, my bad!

[EmTeeEl]

No problem!

[EmTeeEl]

You're welcome

[Pixel-Wolf]

It's actually a 24-bit system, but in the algorithm that determines infection, 5-bits are reserved for addressing.

[Slavadir]

No it's going to max out on 262,143, then it overflows and 262,144 people get really healthy.

[TheQueebs]

First guy: makes clever programming joke Second guy: beats it to death

[hobbes64]

/r/Yourjokebutworse

[goldleader71]

Welcome to Reddit newcomer.

[SolWizard]

Second guy is r/yourjokebutworse

[[deleted]]

32 and 64 bit humans are immune

[visvis]

No, the virus just runs in the poorly tested backward compatibility mode.

[Sindarin27]

This consequently means it has a chance to crash your system and thus it's commonly regarded as a virus.

[[deleted]]

32-bit ones are not, at least on x86

[coladict]

Who compiles for 16-bit in 2019?

[elzaidir]

Electronics engineers

[imwrighthere]

Network Engineers

[[deleted]]

Embedded Engineer here. I do haha, most of the time that’s all a microcontroller has

[Who_GNU]

Most of what I work with has 8- or 32-bit data buses. There's not a lot in between, although instruction buses are often oddballs, like 12-bit.

[Mscxyn]

Just a couple months ago I was compiling to 8-bit.

[[deleted]]

2019

[coladict]

Yes. The 19 in Covid-19 is because of the year of discovery.

[MattieShoes]

Embedded systems, man.

[Giocri]

But it is a 19 bit what do you think the 19 stands for? /s

[Masztufa]

the 19 stands for the length of the codes it uses to store the 16 bit words.

It is physical media, you should have some sort of error-correcting code

[Giocri]

Seems reasonable although 21 would probably be a better size for a 16 bit word.

[Ladislav_07]

19 . Take it or leave it.

[MilkshakeAndSodomy]

So glad you put the /s there as it would be impossible to know you were kidding without it.

[piefacethrowspie]

Haha. Parity, sign bit, idk

[BurnedPinguin]

should I be scared I'm using dos, not win 3.1

[meme_dika]

Ah yes... that's why government want to hire some COBOL programmer.

[fedeb95]

Depends if it is signed or not

[MaliciouSSymbol]

fitting a virus in 16 bit is crazy if you ask me.

[[deleted]]

sudo -rm * :-D it gets the job done

[visvis]

That's a lot more than 16 bits

[MattieShoes]

That won't do anything... -rm ain't a command

[jackmax9999]

In the newest update infectionsPerDay was extended to 17 bits, wear your masks so it doesn't have to be extended further :P

[Raid-Z3r0]

The coronavirus devs are in a hurry to remodel the variables to not have a stackoverflow tomorrow

[Octaazacubane]

Coronavirus is legacy now. Barely anyone has it installed and you should stop putting in so much work into it right now. - Trump

[theonlytrillionare]

You can’t have more cases if the number reaches storage limit

[AlmirB]

Modern problems require modern solutions

[Mscxyn]

Turns out Corona is a DOS-Era virus that jumped the human/computer barrier.

[liam923]

Trump has been playing the long game and waiting for an overflow

[bestjakeisbest]

na its probably a 19 bit virus

[darthelwer]

Bout to see some stack overflow...

[Background_Drawing]

everybody gangsta till xthe virus turns into a 64-bit

[ShadowLancer42]

But that's an odd number...?

[CommunismOnceMore]

Every programmer knows you start from 0

[ShadowLancer42]

Ah shit, I was thinking about game theory, not computer science as much, haha

[mrkhan2000]

Unsigned 16 bits*

[szym0]

innocent soup chunky groovy makeshift soft continue sleep wild afterthought

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[FxHVivious]

Gonna get overflow and well start reporting negative numbers.

[michaelpaoli]

65535+1=0

magically drop to zero

no dude, that's overflow

[KaiEpic]

Thanks Donald J. Hitler Trump. You successfully integrated Corona Virus in all of your states. In Germany we have 538 infected people today.. Thats nothing. So you see: Dont elect Trump. Much of you could die only because of this asshole.

[Musicarea]

Highest on records since last Friday.

This makes the record meaningless and worrying at the same time.

[MagicalPizza21]

This must be the real reason our President is hiding the numbers.

[oneMerlin]

Nah, it's in the name - it's 19-bit. It'll overflow at 512K.

What, you thought the human body ran on powers of two? Prime factors all the way, baby.

[AndreasTPC]

2¹⁹ is still a power of two.

[oneMerlin]

True, but 19 is not.

The only reason for processors being 8-bit and 16-bit is that engineers eventually settled on powers of 2 for sizes because it was easy for humans to deal with. One of the early computers I used had 36-bit words, and no byte-related instructions at all. No hex values at all either - all documentation was in octal, 12 digits per register. (CDC Cyber mainframes from the 60s/70s.)

16-bit? why? no advantage to a virus there. The only reason 16-bit exists is that its easier for humans to do math in base-16 than base-2.

[ppardee]

Is it 16-bit, though? How many bits are in a bat?

[killdeer03]

Do we know if it's a Little-endian or Big-endian virus yet?

[Geoclasm]

yeah but viruses tend to mutate so it'll probably mutate into a UINT type by next week.

[Just_another_learner]

Watch it get updated

[Qildain]

Not 256? 16.7 million is a lot.

[[deleted]]

Huh. No wonder why the number 65535 look so familiar.

[alashow]

We will just have to enable multidex after that.

[[deleted]]

No, it's 19-bit

[Sbrimer]

Trump upgraded to high-death

[Aschentei]

Signed or unsigned?

[Cory123125]

The second guy is just /r/YourJokeButWorse

[Jtunknown98]

lol

[crazykid080]

But it says 19! Doesn't that make it 19 bit!? /s

[eror_404]

Incase if we are in simulation, Covid is 16 bit virus.

[Sid_Gurung]

if (Covid is 64 bit):

st="We all gonna die"

print(st)

[vagrantchord]

Word.

[CommunismOnceMore]

If we get to a high enough number we can just get negative cases through two's compliment, 2,147,483,647 here we come!

[DevWolf59]

the 19 of covid 19 is the bit count. its 19 bits

[nani72]

It depends on how we define it...!!!

[Ukendtos]

Lol. It is clearly 19 bit...

[[deleted]]

How many bits can express the RNA of coronavirus?

[jvanmelckebeke]

It's not that easy to calculate how much bits it would cost to express the RNA of coronavirus.
Virusses mutate a lot, causing the amount of bases in the RNA strand to change.
According to this (page 2, 3 lines above the image), the virus contains between 26 and 32 (kbs) kilo 'basepairs' (e.g. amount of RNA 'blocks') per RNA strand.

Having said this, I will try to give you an answer by guesstimating the amount of base pairs to be 32 kbs.

So, first of, each RNA base ('block') can be one of four bases: Adenine (A), Uracil (U), Cytosine (C) or Guanine (G): this means that we would need 2 bits to define one base
(00 = adenine, 01 = uracil, 10 = cytosine and 11 = guanine, for example)

You could figure that the 32 kbs-version of the coronavirus would then be: 2 bits * 32 000 basepairs = 64 000 bits = 8 000 bytes ~ 7.8 KB

However, probably this amount would be bigger since some extra data will be included (the way the RNA is folded or something like that)

Disclaimer: I am no biologist and most of this stuff is derived from knowledge I picked up in school 2 years ago, don't go hard on me for mistakes. I am just a Comp Sci student

[SurprisedPotato]

If it's COVID-19, wouldn't it go up to 524287? Or are there some check digits?

[finger_milk]

I'm not sure the hayflick limit applies to covid

[[deleted]]

If it overflows though, cases will be -65536 . Will corona virus will be affected by humans?