I answered the question If 32-bit machines can only handle numbers up to 2^32, why can I write 1000000000000 (trillion) without my machine crashing? with a quick off the top of my head answer because the three answers at the time where really more comments than answers and I wanted to give the asker a better answer.

As of the time of this writing the queston has existed for two days and has had 53.7k views. I have the most upvoted answer with 476 upvotes, this makes my answer the sixth most upvoted answer on the entire site.

1. What happened that made that question so extremely popular? (The only theory I have is it was linked by some popular news website or similar)
2. Why is my answer so popular, what magic did I perform so I can bottle it and try and recreate it in future answers?

I answered the question If 32-bit machines can only handle numbers up to 2^32, why can I write 1000000000000 (trillion) without my machine crashing? with a quick off the top of my head answer because the three answers at the time where really more comments than answers and I wanted to give the asker a better answer.

As of the time of this writing the queston has existed for two days and has had 53.7k views. I have the most upvoted answer with 476 upvotes, this makes my answer the sixth most upvoted answer on the entire site.

1. What happened that made that question so extremely popular? (The only theory I have is it was linked by some popular news website or similar)
2. Why is my answer so popular, what magic did I perform so I can bottle it and try and recreate it in future answers?

I answered the question If 32-bit machines can only handle numbers up to 2^32, why can I write 1000000000000 (trillion) without my machine crashing? with a quick off the top of my head answer because the three answers at the time where really more comments than answers and I wanted to give the asker a better answer.

As of the time of this writing the queston has existed for two days and has had 53.7k views. I have the most upvoted answer with 476 upvotes, this makes my answer the sixth most upvoted answer on the entire site.

1. What happened that made that question so extremely popular? (The only theory I have is it was linked by some popular news website or similar)
2. Why is my answer so popular, what magic did I perform so I can bottle it and try and recreate it in future questions?

I answered the question If 32-bit machines can only handle numbers up to 2^32, why can I write 1000000000000 (trillion) without my machine crashing? with a quick off the top of my head answer because the three answers at the time where really more comments than answers and I wanted to give the asker a better answer.

As of the time of this writing the queston has existed for two days and has had 53.7k views. I have the most upvoted answer with 476 upvotes, this makes my answer the sixth most upvoted answer on the entire site.

1. What happened that made that question so extremely popular? (The only theory I have is it was linked by some popular news website or similar)
2. Why is my answer so popular, what magic did I perform so I can bottle it and try and recreate it in future answers?

I answered the question If 32-bit machines can only handle numbers up to 2^32, why can I write 1000000000000 (trillion) without my machine crashing? with a quick off the top of my head answer because the three answers at the time where really more comments than answers and I wanted to give the asker a better answer.

As of the time of this writing I have 476 upvotes, this makes my question the sixth most upvoted answer on the entire site (As of the last data dump).

1. What happened that made that question so extremely popular? (The only theory I have is it was linked by some popular news website or similar)
2. Why is my answer so popular, what magic did I perform so I can bottle it and try and recreate it in future questions?

I answered the question If 32-bit machines can only handle numbers up to 2^32, why can I write 1000000000000 (trillion) without my machine crashing? with a quick off the top of my head answer because the three answers at the time where really more comments than answers and I wanted to give the asker a better answer.

As of the time of this writing the queston has existed for two days and has had 53.7k views. I have the most upvoted answer with 476 upvotes, this makes my answer the sixth most upvoted answer on the entire site.

1. What happened that made that question so extremely popular? (The only theory I have is it was linked by some popular news website or similar)
2. Why is my answer so popular, what magic did I perform so I can bottle it and try and recreate it in future questions?