Examples of using "256" in a sentence and their english translations:
square of 256 -- sixteen.
In 1930, 256 newborns were given the Calmette vaccine,
The student answered, "The square root of 256 is sixteen."
The teacher asked him, "What's the square root of 256?"
"You're lucky! Your change comes to exactly 256 yen." "What do you mean by exactly?" "It's exactly two to the power of eight."
Christopher Columbus once used the same joke 256 times in one day... thereby causing his entire crew to die of laughter.