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Nope, it's not a mistake... I made a mistake...

8000*8000 is way over 24 bits ! ;) :)

I checked with this calculator:

http://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatApplet/IEEE754.html

And also by doing (2^24) ^ 0.5 = 4096

So:

(4095 * 4095)-1 is still in range ! ;)

Bye,
Skybuck =D