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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I’m assuming they wanted the literal length of the string

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

That seems to be the consensus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Naw, they wanted the metaphorical length. Computers are great at metaphors.