When I first heard about hexadecimal, I thought that using A-F for digits lacked imagination, and risked confusion with letters besides. I made up a set of digits, as I recall, and even names for them.

I'm not completely convinced this is a bad idea. But it's likely.

~mark

Michael Everson wrote:

http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2677
N2677
Proposal for six Hexadecimal digits
Ricardo Cancho Niemietz - individual contribution
2003-10-21





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