Youtube announced this week that they never expected one of their videos would be watched in numbers larger than a 32-bit integer, or 2,147,483,647 — That is until South Korean music sensation Psy posted his video “Gangnam Style”, which prompted Youtube to increase their maximum view limit to a 64-bit integer — 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. Here’s a tip on how to say this numerical mouthful in English and Chinese.
In case you were just born, here’s the original video that broke the first Youtube counter: