GANGNAM STYLE clip broke all YouTube records and its counter!
12 PHOTOS
The music video clip by South Korean singer Psy ‘Gangnam Style’ exceeded YouTube's view limit, so the site altered its counter in order to accommodate the figure.
YouTube's counter previously used a 32-bit integer, which is a unit used to represent data in computer architecture. This means the maximum possible views it could count was 2,147,483,647.
YouTube noted that the video was the most watched ever. It has been viewed more than 2,147,483,647 times. And about 8,789,000 people like it; ~1,144,000 don’t like the clip.
BTW at the moment (04 December 2014) it was viewed 2,154,940,010 times. To compare - the second most-watched video on YouTube – ‘Baby’ by Justin Bieber - is behind Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ by more than a billion views!
Thus YouTube now uses a 64-bit integer for its video counter, which means videos have a maximum viewer count of 9.22 quintillion, and exact number is 9,223,372,036,854,775,808.
And how do you say 9,223,372,036,854,775,808? Well it sounds like:
Nine quintillion, two hundred and twenty-three quadrillion, three hundred and seventy-two trillion, thirty-six billion, eight hundred and fifty-four million, seven hundred and seventy-five thousand, eight hundred and eight.
We embed the clip here, so you can watch it right now, or below is the link to YouTube page:
http://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0
| Nine quintillion, two hundred and twenty-three quadrillion, three hundred and seventy-two trillion, thirty-six billion, eight hundred and fifty-four million, seven hundred and seventy-five thousand, eight hundred and eight - new limit! |
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