I corrected your mistake with the first of my “3” wishes lol

I'm having UFO: Enemy Unknown flashbacks.

"accurate"

Gotta wish for a 64-bit genie.

Next you'll tell me Hercules wasn't a demigod because he drank all but one drop of the humanification juice after he was stolen from Zeus, the ever-faithful husband.

Make it -1 you mean. 0 is still a valid uint_8

-1 comes from the wish to make the total 0.

but they asked for 0! = 1 wishes, so it should be 1 - 1 = 0 wishes remaining, and not 0 - 1 = -1

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If the genie knows the wish counter automatically decrements after every wish execution, he should set the wish counter to 1 to fullfill a total of 0 wishes. But since he's a genie I'm sure he has unrestricted rights to modify the wish counter.

Plot twist: The dialogue for "You have X wishes!" was not written beyond 3, so he now overflows into unused memory and just screams incoherent garbage at you.

But 0!=1, what am I missing here?

The Disney genie was also just a scam. Aladdin explicitly wished to be a prince. Not look like a prince or be as rich as a prince or have a parade like a prince. But actually be one.

Instead he's revealed to be a 'fake prince' because the genie half assed his wish.

For a moment I read it as 0! (zero factorial) and was super confused.

Updating the balance after granting the wish is bad practice. This genie is begging for a reentrancy attack.

While Hercules is impressively wrong, I knew Aladdin was a fun original read when it began with 'In the Far East Kingdom of China....'

Hercules, for all of its faults, actually takes place in Greece. Which is kinda sorta close to Rome (Hercules is his Roman name lol. Heracles is his Greek name).

On the other hand, Aladdin might be a fake story all together. As in, some French Guy may have made up Aladdin as part of his translation of 1001 Arabian Nights. IIRC, Arabs don't know wtf that story is doing in the (French) book.

So Aladdin might be an entirely fake addition to the 1001 Arabian Nights novel. Canonically fake. So it's in the true spirit of Aladdin (and 1001 Arabian Nights) to screw with the story anyway.

I love when fanfic gets canonized by public consensus.

Its a quirk in binary math with 8 digits. If you "roll the odometer" past 0, it resets to 255

 0000 0011 (3)
-0000 0001 (1)
=0000 0010 (2)

 0000 0000 (0)
-0000 0001 (1)
=1111 1111 (255)

I think you missed the joke

Genie grants the wish, and then deducts one from the pool of remaining wishes.

Edit 1: And it is implied that the Genie stored the number of remaining wishes as an eight bit unsigned integer, where subtracting one from zero gives 255.

It is worth noting that unsigned integer subtract-from-zero exploits were common in video games from around the time that Disney's Aladdin was released.

Edit 2: No discussion of amusing subtract-from-zero bugs is complete without a link to Nuclear Gandhi. (Even though it is now believed not to have been a subtract-from-zero bug.)