May 15, 2003

hexit

/hek´sit/ n.

A hexadecimal digit (0-9, and A-F or a-f). Used by people who claim that there are only ten digits, dammit; sixteen-fingered human beings are rather rare, despite what some keyboard designs might seem to imply (see space-cadet keyboard).

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:43 AM

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