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Subject: re: Minor question
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Whenever you see the prefix 0x on a number, it is specifically to
indicate that the number is in hexadecimal, so that you don't need
to determine that from the context. In particular, 'C' uses that to
decide that is is 0xhex rather than decimal rather than 0octal
(0x0010 = 16 = 020)
-Jay Libove
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