Message163912
| Author |
terry.reedy |
| Recipients |
Ramchandra Apte, docs@python, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, sandro.tosi, terry.reedy |
| Date |
2012年06月25日.08:14:30 |
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-1.0 |
| Marked as misclassified |
Yes |
| Message-id |
<1340612071.28.0.937179852863.issue13799@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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| Content |
I learned about different number bases in 8th grade math class (a long time ago) and how to use base 2 to win nim. I learned 'octal' and 'hexadecimal' much later. In the absence of an official, documented vocabulary for such non-Python concepts, I think this should be closed as overly picky and based on an erroneous premise. In any case, programmers should know both terms. Anyone with a deficient math education can look up 'base 16' on Wikipedia and be redirected to hexadecimal as a synonym and read an article that is much longer than one might expect, with more detail than most would want to know.
A more obscure term that one might more reasonably object to is 'radix', as in 'radix 16', as a synonym for 'base'. |
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