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Old 04-04-2006, 10:51 AM
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Default Re: What is the 62 mile bug?

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Originally Posted by Tim
Don't know how much this has to do with it, but computers think/speak in binary - 1's and 0's. You can count from 0 to 63 using 6 bits, that is 000000 thru 111111. To get 64, you need a seventh bit (1000000). Often times when computers do goofy things related to math, it happens on the factors of 2 (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64...). If the computer - due to a programming error - is only reading the first 6 bits of the mileage data, it would go 0 - 63 then recycle. It could be some other combination as I'm not sure how they'd handle the decimal.
Unlikely because the trip mileage is tracked in tenths of a mile, and the reset definitely happens between 62 and 63 miles.

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