: Probably. I know the kill limit in Starcraft is 250
: (after one occasion in which my Battlecruiser hero
: singlehandedly destroyed three enemy bases), although
: 127 does seem a rather odd limit. I'd have though it
: would be more likely to be a round number, probably a
: multiple of ten. Still... (shrugs)
127 is a very round number. It's the seventh power or two, minus 1 since you count from zero. Most numbers in computer systems will be powers of two, not multiples of ten. Ten is a really arbitrary number with no significance whatsoever, the Arabs and Romans just happened to count on their fingers. We'd have been much better using the old British/Germanic system of base-12.
