Why 232 rounds?

["." <hololeap () gmail com>]

In the nping man page, under miscellaneous options, it says that if you put
-c 0 as an option nping will stop after 232 rounds. I'm just a little
curious, why 232? Shouldn't -c 0 make it run infinitely?
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