Numeric Base Confusion
Comments joke about and debate interpretations of numbers in binary, hexadecimal, octal, decimal, and BCD, often referencing a specific code display or thumbwheel settings on old hardware.
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That's what hexadecimal digits are for :)
he he. try octal on em, will be harder.
Ironic to write in binary a number which is only significant in decimal.
Maybe it's thinking in BCD
Yes dude,it just an example hexadecimal representation. Don't take everything so literally...
That's not even hexadecimal...
Apparently it's binary coded decimal.
Mental conversion between binary, octal, decimal, and hex is a minefield.
It didn't do neither hex nor octal.
Add your toes and you get hexadecimal!