Kenneth Whistler scripsit:
> In any case, I wonder if Tom could explain what is special about
> hexadecimal expressed with "0".."9", "A".."F", as opposed to
> any other base numeric system that might be in widespread use,
> (duodecimal and vigesimal come to mind) which would lead to a
> particular argument that it should be encoded with a distinct set
> of characters.
Oh, just wait. The next step will be to propose separate characters
for binary 1 and 0. He will also propose these novel glyphs for
hex digits A-F:
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