Question about hosts_access(5)

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

    > man 5 hosts_access

    ... snip ...

    An  expression  of the form 'n.n.n.n/m.m.m.m´ is interpreted as a
    'net/mask´ pair. An IPv4 host address is matched if 'net´ is equal
    to the bitwise AND of the  address  and  the  'mask´.  For example,
    the  net/mask pattern '131.155.72.0/255.255.254.0´ matches every
    address in the range '131.155.72.0´ through '131.155.73.255´.


    Is there any reason why it must be written out as:

        131.155.72.0/255.255.254.0

    ... as opposed to using the shorter version:

        131.155.72.0/23


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