Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bu.edu!nntp-read!seamus From: seamus@bucsf.bu.edu (Jeff Rizzo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Standard for long hex numbers? (Was: Re: Amiga and its memory map) Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 16:54:58 GMT References: <2207@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> <18881@cbmvax.commodore.com> <887@cbmger.UUCP> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: As Little as Possible Lines: 26 In-reply-to: peterk@cbmger.UUCP's message of 13 Feb 91 10:11:15 GMT In article <887@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes: In article <18881@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: > >Cheap-ass A3000 memory map: > >$ff010000-$ffffffff Reserved I always have big difficulties reading such big hex numbers. Couldn't there be developed a standard to insert delimiters as in long decimal numbers (there all 3 digits) all 4 digits? How about $ff01'0000 (or comma or hyphen instead of "'")? I don't know about any "standard", but I usually just use a blank space, such as $ff01 0000, and I believe I've seen it used elsewhere too... In my own personal (and not-always-so-humble) opinion, hex numbers look REALLY funny with any sort of comma, period or apostrophe in them Just my $.02 ... let the flame wars begin :-) j -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Rizzo INTERNET: seamus@bucsf.bu.edu seamus@bu-pub.bu.edu Boston University BIX: jrizzo 219 Freeman St. #2 Brookline, MA 02146 (617)566-0693