Remember to use your "0x".

[Thinkit]

Hexadecimal is on the rise! Done HTML coloring? Not only does it
support hexadecimal, but it does NOT support decimal. We're not a
decimal people--evidenced by the way we keep time. Remember...unless
you're coding bowling scores, there's no need for decimal.

[Richard Heathfield]

Thinkit wrote:

Hexadecimal is on the rise! Done HTML coloring? Not only does it
support hexadecimal, but it does NOT support decimal. We're not a
decimal people--evidenced by the way we keep time. Remember...unless
you're coding bowling scores, there's no need for decimal.

Ah, it's that time of year again, I see.

A good programmer should be able to handle all number bases up to at least
64 when the need arises, and this certainly includes decimal.

Personally, I favour base 256 (or base 10, as we write it in base 256), but
I don't insist upon it.

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[Simon Biber]

"Richard Heathfield" <do******@address.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

Personally, I favour base 256 (or base 10, as we write it in base
256), but I don't insist upon it.

All bases are written 10 in their base :-)

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[CBFalconer]

Richard Heathfield wrote:

Thinkit wrote:

Hexadecimal is on the rise! Done HTML coloring? Not only does it
support hexadecimal, but it does NOT support decimal. We're not a
decimal people--evidenced by the way we keep time. Remember...unless
you're coding bowling scores, there's no need for decimal.

Ah, it's that time of year again, I see.

Thinkit has been around before, trolling the hex kick.

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[Richard Heathfield]

CBFalconer wrote:

Richard Heathfield wrote:

Thinkit wrote:

> Hexadecimal is on the rise! Done HTML coloring? Not only does it
> support hexadecimal, but it does NOT support decimal. We're not a
> decimal people--evidenced by the way we keep time. Remember...unless
> you're coding bowling scores, there's no need for decimal.

Ah, it's that time of year again, I see.

Thinkit has been around before, trolling the hex kick.

Indeed he has. Fortunately, he isn't frequent enough to be a real nuisance.
Anyway, he's obviously not a true devotee of the number base he espouses,
or he'd give it one of its proper names: "senidenary", "sedecimal", or
"sexadecimal".

if(I can just deal parenthetically with another reply elsethread)
{
Simon - yes, I know. That was why I said it.
}

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[Sidney Cadot]

Simon Biber wrote:

"Richard Heathfield" <do******@address.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

Personally, I favour base 256 (or base 10, as we write it in base
256), but I don't insist upon it.

All bases are written 10 in their base :-)

As a long-time devotee of the unary number system I must speak out
against this heresy.

You people shall have to eat your bits, tits, and whatsmore as soon as
the One True Number System comes back en vogue.

Best regards,

Sidney

[Kevin Goodsell]

Sidney Cadot wrote:

As a long-time devotee of the unary number system I must speak out
against this heresy.

You people shall have to eat your bits, tits,

Er... you meant 'trits' (trinary digits), perhaps?

-Kevin
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