On 9/13/22 2:07 PM, wjoe wrote:
>On Saturday, 10 September 2022 at 02:22:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>Hex values are far easier to read, too. Have you ever put the tip of your pencil on the screen to count the number of 1's? I have. Binary literals are user unfriendly.
That's true only if you're working with hex values.
Besides, I've had to use the tip of a pencil to count Fs in hex values.
Are you saying that hex is user friendlier when dealing with decimal values, too ?
I've used the tip of a pencil to write out what the real bits are of a hex literal, because I can never remember what all of them actually mean.
-Steve