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May 1, 2018 at 13:04 comment added Ralf Kleberhoff @DanielWagner I absolutely agree. Especially as back then when FAT16 was created, shifting was definitely a cheaper operation than multiplying. But probably they were just happy to get it running, and not software-engineering it for decades into the future...
May 1, 2018 at 12:27 comment added Daniel Wagner @RalfKleberhoff That does naturally lead to a followup question, though: if you're storing a power of two, why store the number itself rather than the exponent on the two?
May 1, 2018 at 10:28 comment added Ralf Kleberhoff I had to think hard at the "maximum possible sectors per cluster is 64", until I got it: 64 is indeed the largest power-of-2 you can represent in a signed byte: 128 isn't possible as the maximum positive signed byte value is 127.
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