Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/65535 (number)

65535 (number)

non-notable number; see WP:NUMBER; two weak claims are not enough: It's a Fermat number, not a Fermat prime, and there are infinitely many of those. The fact that it's the highest unsigned 2-bit int is already in 10000 (number).Septentrionalis 19:02, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's a Mersenne number, you meant to say. It's a product of Fermat primes.Rich 19:58, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - I think the first claim about the max points in a game is weak. However, the TCP ports is interesting, I think it has some merit. Plus, somebody put some work into the article. I think it should stay. Chris Kreider 19:04, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. It one of numbers software developers should recognize immediatelly but that's about it. Any ordinal value limited to 2 Bytes will have 65536 possible values and using one such value as a reserved is quite common trick. TCP/UDP/IPX/zillion other protocols and APIs/game points are not unique in using 2 B sized data with 64k limit. Pavel Vozenilek 19:32, 29 October 2006

If it's a common trick then isn't it a piece of lore a software rookie would be glad to learn?Rich 20:04, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Last I checked, we werent all software developers. Perhaps something we may take for granted, somebody else may find fascinating, or need information on. Chris Kreider 23:27, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, despite the seeming narrowness of the examples, this is an important value in computer science in general. Also, if you see a factual error, be bold and edit away! Seraphimblade 19:43, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep being the highest 16-bit unsigned int has a lot of significance for older computing systems. As such, two claims is just the tip of things related to this number. Also, notability is a guideline, not policy. Mitaphane _talk 20:53, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep its importance in computing is notable enough. --Salix alba (talk) 22:42, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Mitaphane. Danny Lilithborne 23:20, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, I have very recently made edits to try to make 65535 seem more interesting and notable. Part of my reason for Keep is pedagogical-65536 is a concrete number so that a person who hates x's and y's etc can see interesting things without forcefeeding. For ex, I said 3x5x17x257=65535 is 2 less than the next Fermat prime, hoping the reader'll notice that 3 is 2 less than 5(second fermat prime),3x5 is 2 less thn 17(third Fermat prime),3x5x17 is 2 less than 257, and so on.Rich 23:36, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep. Highly notable Mersenne number. --- RockMFR 23:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Mitaphane.--WaltCip 02:55, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep per Mitaphine. shoy 04:23, 30 October 2006 (UTC)