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Author vstinner
Recipients iritkatriel, martin.panter, miss-islington, python-dev, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date 2020-12-17.13:58:11
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> I am wondering why 53/22? 5/2 is as good for 8-bytes long -- both gives 21-bytes buffer.

53/22 is closer to math.log(256)/math.log(10) than 5/2, and 8*53 should not overflow :-)
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