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Author	belopolsky
Recipients	akuchling, belopolsky, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, terry.reedy
Date	2010-11-18.20:12:20
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: .. >> I really think of them as hex or hexadecimal digits, just as 0-9 are decimal, not base 10 digits. >> > > I am fine with "hexadecimal" here. I did not like "hex". If you think about it, "hexadecimal digit" is a twice oxymoron because both "decimal" and "digit" imply base 10. :-) It does look like the most widely used term, nevertheless.

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Alexander Belopolsky
<report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
..
>> I really think of them as hex or hexadecimal digits, just as 0-9 are decimal, not base 10 digits.
>>
>
> I am fine with "hexadecimal" here.  I did not like "hex".

If you think about it, "hexadecimal digit" is a twice oxymoron because
both "decimal" and "digit" imply base 10. :-)  It does look like the
most widely used term, nevertheless.

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