Re: what is Hex?
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:43:01 -0500 (EST)
By the way, I think someone said that a hex number starts with 0. I don't
think that's quite right. C derived languages typically distinguish a hex
number with a preceding 0x, but the number is what follows the x. Other
languages or contexts use different conventions to distinguish hex from
decimal, e.g., Visual Basic uses a preceding &h sequence and Unicode uses
a preceding u. In other contexts, the number is understood to be hex, so
no additional prefix or suffix is needed.
Here is a long Wikipedia article on hex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal
Cheers,
Jamal
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