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Old 03-28-2009, 11:59 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel View Post
well that makes no sense. after all, the zero is so round and fat, while the one is thin as a rail. although i suppose mathematically all those skinny ones do add up.
Actually, the initial state of erased flash memory cell is all ones - when writing actual bits, you can only go from 1 to 0, not the other way around. If you need to restore some 1s, you have to erase a complete block and write everything anew.
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