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Re:Things Every Hacker Once Knew by dontdoxxme on Friday September 29, 2023 @06:13PM (#37710722)
“Modern convention” that is defined in RFC 20 (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc20.html), from 1969 (referencing the ASCII standard from 1968).
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Re:Things Every Hacker Once Knew by drivers99 on Friday September 29, 2023 @07:09PM (#37711177)
Something I noticed in that document (unrelated to the topic of the RFC) was an alternative way of listing hex values as decimal numbers separated by "/". I really like that (I always struggle with converting A to F in my head). I guess it didn't catch on.

> ASCII X'2E' or 2/14

> X'OD' or 0/13

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Re:Things Every Hacker Once Knew by rightbyte on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:46AM (#37714216)
Ye. In my head 0x10 looks smaller than 0x0B since 0xB is bigger than 10.
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