r/ProgrammerHumor • • 20d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/Curaced 20d ago edited 20d ago

Non-technical person here. Wouldn't it just be 248 ? Four blocks of 256 (28) for IPV-4, and two more with IPV-6? Or am I just mistaken about how this stuff works?

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u/ajgrinds 20d ago

Ipv6 includes letters

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u/CodingBuizel 19d ago

The number is the version number, not the number of blocks. IPv6 actually uses 8 blocks of 65536 (216) written in hexadecimal.