{"id":8036,"date":"2014-12-17T21:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=8036"},"modified":"2014-12-16T09:24:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T09:24:11","slug":"gangnam-style-breaks-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/gangnam-style-breaks-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Gangnam Style Breaks YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PSY&#8217;s hit from 2012 recently went on to surpass 2,147,483,647 views. Anyone with a good knowledge of binary will recognise that number to be the maximum limit of a 32-bit integer. Way back in 2005, YouTube&#8217;s counter system was built using a 32-bit integer, with the reasonable thinking that no video would reach this limit.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube has this to say:<br \/>\n&#8220;We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY. &#8220;Gangnam Style&#8221; has been viewed so many times we had to upgrade to a 64-bit integer (9,223,372,036,854,775,808)!<\/p>\n<p>Hover over the counter in PSY&#8217;s video to see a little math magic and stay tuned for bigger and bigger numbers on YouTube.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Only 9 quintillion more views till we break YouTube again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9bZkp7q19f0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSY&#8217;s hit from 2012 recently went on to surpass 2,147,483,647 views. 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