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Maybe for the same reason why gasoline in U.S. is usually priced in increments of $0.10 as the performance rating goes up (although that seems to be less of a rigid rule lately where I live)?

Or maybe for ease of predictability? After all it is much easier to make a binary choice between two numbers with a fixed interval between them, than to choose an intermediate value to the Nth degree.



They can use hyperbolic sized increments with the same predictability they get on constant sizes.




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