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[lojban-beginners] Hexadecimal numbers
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- Subject: [lojban-beginners] Hexadecimal numbers
- From: Cal Stepanian <ziphilt@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:10:37 -0500
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Hello, I joined the mailing list a few weeks ago, and I've been trying to learn this awesome language as quickly as I can. Everything about the language seems very logical and well-thought-out, except that hexadecimal numbers look a bit weird. They seem to be detached from the decimal digits in a way that I can't see the benefit to. According to this part of Lojban For Beginners,
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less5days.html
hexadecimal digits haven't been assigned rafsi. Is this a temporary problem, or is this what the designers intended? I want to use base sixteen eventually for most everything, because it would be so much simpler to convert to and from binary that way (I am interested in computer architecture). If anyone could explain this to me, I would be very grateful!