Re: Hexadecimal digits?

From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Sat Nov 08 2003 - 18:01:43 EST

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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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