way to go DonMike - you seem to have coverd two numbers, which leaves 255 next! woohoo! Such a great number for a computer geek!
Since I don't feel like typing it all myself, I'll pull from wikipedia...
what can you do with a single byte?
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255 is a special number in some tasks having to do with computing. This is the maximum value representable by an eight-digit binary number, and therefore the maximum representable by an unsigned 8-bit byte (the most common size of byte, also called octet), the smallest common variable size used in high level programming languages (bit being smaller, but rarely used for value storage). The range is 0 to 255, which is 256 total values
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where does 255 fit into the IP concept?
the worlds most basic
subnet mask is 255.255.255.0
all hail
255!