commit de116ba836c50067fda9b25bdbd562e3198fc454 parent f8bbc7857bb32ac7762c81d8580670c7e1a3dae3 Author: Jared Tobin <jared@jtobin.io> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 20:07:19 -0230 readme: fix atom size comments [ci skip] Diffstat:
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md @@ -10,10 +10,11 @@ Utilities for phonetic base wrangling. Here you can primarily find functions for dealing with the "patp" *phonetic base* used by Urbit. The `@p` encoding is used for naming ships; it uniquely -represents a 32-bit number in a memorable and pronounceable fashion. +represents a nonnegative integer (i.e. an *atom*) in a memorable and +pronounceable fashion. -The `@p` encoding is an *obfuscated* representation of an underlying 32-bit -number, in particular, hence the 'ob' in the library's name. +The `@p` encoding is an *obfuscated* representation of an underlying atom, in +particular, hence the 'ob' in the library's name. ## Usage