The reason hexadecimal only uses 0-9 and a-f is that letters after f hadn't been invented yet
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In addition to the blurb above, I'm a recovering mathematician, Jewish, and autistic as fuck--those didn't alliterate
Sometimes I write poems, mostly in English and Spanish
I feel weird putting my age in my bio but I am in fact a Grown Up if you were worried
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The reason hexadecimal only uses 0-9 and a-f is that letters after f hadn't been invented yet
��e �ea��� �e�adec��a� ���� ��e� 0�9 a�� a�f �� ��a� �e��e�� af�e� f �ad�'� bee� ���e��ed �e�
The world is not yet ready for base-149186*.
*The number of characters in Unicode (at least according to a cursory Google search).