![]() ![]() ![]() That number may be only implied, but it's also huge. It's the play count, strictly speaking, but music video views don't overflow theoretical mathematical boundaries unless a lot-like, a lot-of people are watching them. What's mind-boggling about all this, though, is that the number that was pushing those limits loosely correlates with a quantity of people. It didn't actually "break YouTube's code" in any meaningful sense, let alone "break the Internet." That fix was as simple as changing the memory space allotted to that data point from 32 bit to 64 bit, which is actually a relatively small change. When "Gangnam Style" hit 2 billion views back in May, a record at the time, Google's engineers noted that it might also soon overflow the limits of a 32-bit integer. ![]()
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