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Comment by tenebrisalietum

Where the hex is "intuitive" is showing what's "even" to the CPU.

For example we think of 10, 100, 50 as nice round convenient quantities.

CPUs see 16, 256, 2048 as convenient quantities--in hex that's visible: 0x10, 0x100, 0x800.

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