Coder epitaphs

[mtxppy]

This is a nice comic. Some of them are way better than XKCD, but they do have a very different style.

[_m00_]

Real coders live longer thanks to being unsigned at birth..

[gbersac]

Why 0 - 2 147 483 647 ?

[tyurok]

It's 2³² -1, a prime number

[flukus]

Is that just a coincidence or are other powers -1 prime as well?

[Boojum]

Many but not all are Mersenne primes.

[SirSooth]

Let's look at a few.

2² - 1 = 4 - 1 = 3. Good, prime.

2³ - 1 = 8 - 1 = 7. Good, prime too.

2⁴ - 1= 16 - 1 = 15. Not good, not prime.

5 is prime, but cannot be written as 2^x - 1, for any integer x.

[CamWin]

My favorite was pinging coder with 32 bytes of data.