I don't know anything about basketball either - it was just a shortcut for Athletic, Black, American. Seemed to fit.
Not sure about the origins of the good oul' hexadecimal. Hmm.
Oh yes, hex is a more compact way of dealing with binary. You can't translate easily from binary into the more familiar base 10 (since 2 is not a root of 10) but 16 isn't too tough a number to deal with, and it's 2 to the power of 4.
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Date: 2005-02-05 10:14 pm (UTC)Not sure about the origins of the good oul' hexadecimal. Hmm.
Oh yes, hex is a more compact way of dealing with binary. You can't translate easily from binary into the more familiar base 10 (since 2 is not a root of 10) but 16 isn't too tough a number to deal with, and it's 2 to the power of 4.