Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:29:53 -0600 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: "Mark B. Withers" <mwithers@one.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: hexidecimal literacy Message-ID: <20010127012952.B31323@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <20010127022257.A32133@arrakis.desert-power.org>; from mwithers@one.net on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:20:19AM -0500 References: <20010127022257.A32133@arrakis.desert-power.org>
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Mark B. Withers (mwithers@one.net) wrote: > I was wondering if someone could help me with understanding > hexidecimal numbers used in FreeBSD? This reminds me of the Onion story "Microsoft Patents 1s, 0s"... > I can relate mentally to the concept that the numeral system is based > on 16 instead of 10 like decimal numbers are. > > Is the prefix 0x always used? What does the 0x mean? The prefix 0x is always used to denote a hexidecimal number. The prefix 0 is used to denote an octal (base-8) number. Why ask why? > Would the hexidecimal number 0xf mean 16? Actually, it's 15. 0x10 would be 16. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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