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Originally Posted by Kayot
I figured that it was in that lump of hex. ^-^ good thing I'm good at hex editing.
Thank you for confirming my fears.
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on a side note.
It was IBM that decided on the prefix of "hexa" rather than the proper Latin prefix of "sexa". The word "hexadecimal" is strange in that hexa is derived from the Greek for "six" and decimal is derived from the Latin for "tenth".
the expected purely Latin form would be "sexadecimal", but then computer hackers would be tempted to shorten the word to "sex".
so we all decided not to use that because god only knows what would happen if any of use nerds got used to banging sex late at night on our keyboards instead of hex's.