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53 is indeed a magic value for IEEE doubles, but why would anybody count an inherently integer value with floating-point? That's a serious rookie mistake.

Of course there's no law that says SSD firmware writers can't be rookies.




Full stack JS, everything is a double down to the SSD firmware!




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