TIL 0x denotes hexadecimal E.g. > 0xFEDCBA987654321 / 0x123456789ABCDEF (somehow... | Hacker News

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		nomilk 33 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 987654321 / 123456789 TIL 0x denotes hexadecimal E.g. > 0xFEDCBA987654321 / 0x123456789ABCDEF (somehow I'd seen the denotation for years yet never actually known what it was).

extraduder_ire 33 days ago [–]

Numbers with a leading 0 are octal (base 8) in many programming languages too.

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