> Merchants insist on decimal only because their cash registers have no
> buttons for hex digits.
>
> 0xA exp 0xC is 0xE8d4A51000
> 0x2 exp 0x28 is 0x10000000000
> 0x10000000000 / 0xE8d4A51000 = ~ 0x1.197D938
>
> So it's 0x19.8 per 0x100 loss for us hard working programmers when the
> scrooges point to the International System of Units as justification for
> giving us only a single-digit power of 0xA rather than a double-digit
> power of 0x2.
>
> I hope to have made my case sufficiently enough to get programmer's Teras
> next time i buy a disk.
Thanks Thomas! 🙂
Stefan
