my backup Curve is all numbers. its hexadecimal, and may contain any combination of numbers 0-9 and letters A-F.
We were born with 10 fingers and that has influened our primary choice of number systems, decimal.
In computer science we learned that numbers can be represented as groups of 0/1 bits. Those bits are futher grouped into nibbles and bytes, a convient way of expressing numbers.
Computers dont have fingers, they are best managed with 4 bits to represent an integer number. The problem is, what do we call the numbers past 10?
In typical geek fashion, they adopted the most convient system by borrowing letters from the Roman alphabet.
In Hexadecimal, the numbers are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b, c, d, e and f.
Lazy geeks, that has caused no end of confusion.
My Pearl is all decimal numbers, but the majority will have a letter or two.
We were born with 10 fingers and that has influened our primary choice of number systems, decimal.
In computer science we learned that numbers can be represented as groups of 0/1 bits. Those bits are futher grouped into nibbles and bytes, a convient way of expressing numbers.
Computers dont have fingers, they are best managed with 4 bits to represent an integer number. The problem is, what do we call the numbers past 10?
In typical geek fashion, they adopted the most convient system by borrowing letters from the Roman alphabet.
In Hexadecimal, the numbers are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b, c, d, e and f.
Lazy geeks, that has caused no end of confusion.
My Pearl is all decimal numbers, but the majority will have a letter or two.
I was just gonna say that.
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Nothing to do with MS I'm afraid, it's very old. I used to code for this in my firmware projects ages ago using embedded Intel CPU's. It has its place though, or at least it used to.