As I got to know there are 256 possible combinations to get for 1 byte. If I understand it correctly, it should mean that you can display any number out of numbers 0-255 and this very number would use only 1 byte of your storage on your computer. Displaying a number out of the numbers from 256 to 65536 would however cost you 2 bytes of your storage (if I understand it the right way). However after typing in the number 65535 into a text document and looking up its file size (the "information" about the text doc) I got to see that the used storage for this document was actually "5 bytes". Does anyone know what the reason for this could be?
What is the size of the number 65535 in bytes?
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