[issue13799] Base 16 should be hexadecimal in Unicode HOWTO

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

I learned about different number bases in 8th grade math class (a long time ago) and how to use base 2 to win nim. I learned 'octal' and 'hexadecimal' much later. In the absence of an official, documented vocabulary for such non-Python concepts, I think this should be closed as overly picky and based on an erroneous premise. In any case, programmers should know both terms. Anyone with a deficient math education can look up 'base 16' on Wikipedia and be redirected to hexadecimal as a synonym and read an article that is much longer than one might expect, with more detail than most would want to know.

A more obscure term that one might more reasonably object to is 'radix', as in 'radix 16', as a synonym for 'base'.

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