In
<CAE1XxDEexa0=YqBgiyVeuJVXA2dXs9B7Z=mDKPspx748=hz...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 09/20/2014
at 10:20 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>My point, which I suspect that Shmuel understands very well,
My point, which I suspect John understands very well, is that there
*are* hexadecimal data and that some of us deal with them every day.
As an example, the value 'F1F9C6'X might be interpreted as a
hexadecimal number expressed using the EBCDIC characters "1", "9" and
"F". Most of us would describe a routine that parses[1] such a string
and translates it to '19F'X as a hexadecimal to binary routine.
[1] And detects invalid content
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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