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Except it's not 65536 -- it's 65356. (I just verified in the PDF.)

Which actually makes me wonder if somebody fat-fingered it and meant to type 65536 by hand and got it wrong. Which given everything we've found out about the sloppiness there, would seem quite apropos.

Normally I wouldn't think so, but the trailing "999994" also just seems so strangely floating point-derived... but who even knows.



65536 requires 17-bits. So maybe they tried the one-too-large number, failed, and assumed they transposed something.


Well at least someone in this chain of information is dyslexic.




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