Just wondering what would happen if I had a machine with 16 discreet
states per wire or connection (using different voltage levels, colors,
frequencies, or whatever). On such a machine there would be no binary
bits, so the lowest data type might really be hex.
Mike Schwab wrote:
Hexadecimal is a way of expressing the value of 4 bit with one number
or digit. It does not assign a meaning to the data.
It could be a binary number, a packed decimal number, a floating point
number (hex float or decimal float or ???), ASCII or UTF-8 characters,
EBCDIC characters, or a z/Series instruction,
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