On Feb 4, 2009, at 7:18 PM, JOE Conner wrote:
You are using base ten numbers that are internally represented in base 16 hexadecimal.
Base 2 binary, actually. Base 16 was historically used by IBM mainframes, but they are migrating to base 2 nowadays. (They also support base 10, which Intel is unfortunately stalling on.)
Yes, there is a difference between base 16 and base 2. In 1964, IBM thought there wasn't. They were wrong.
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