Questions tagged [hexadecimal]
A tag for questions about base-16 numbers.
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Was there ever a microcomputer with a full-size keyboard and a hex numpad?
I'm aware of some early/super hobbyist microcomputers that came with ONLY a hex numpad (that is, no letters beyond F/no punctuation). I'm also aware of home microcomputers that had the usual decimal ...
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When and where did the $ convention for hexadecimal literals originate?
I found this question asking about the origin of 0x to denote hexadecimal to be interesting.
However, when I cut my teeth programming on 8-bit 65xx systems in the early 80's everything I saw used a $ ...
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Where and when did the `0x` convention for hexadecimal literals originate?
By the early 1980s, C was using 0x as a prefix to indicate integer literals expressed in hexadecimal, e.g., 0xCAFE. This did not exist in B as of 1972, though B did support octal integer literals via ...
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What is the hex versus octal timeline?
When and why did hexadecimal representation become more common than octal for displaying and printing out multi-bit binary fields?
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