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Post by harywilke » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 8:37 PM UTC

euroderf wrote: post #18

franky47 wrote: post #13

I hoped to see a paragraph on hexadecimal notation (eg: 0xbeef), alas we'll have to settle for Stack Overflow's [1] wisdom on this: > Short story: the 0 tells the parser it's dealing with a constant (and not an identifier/reserved word). Something is still needed to specify the number base: the x is an arbitrary choice. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2670639/why-are-hexadeci...

Lest we forget our lore: 0xDEADBEEF and (based on a true story!) 0xCAFEBABE.