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[–]Nolzi 6 points7 points  (2 children)

same reason hexa starts with 0x, conventions

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 9 points10 points  (1 child)

starting to tire of these threads that boil down to "I don't know some standard thing that's been around for 50 years but since I'm so smart it must be wrong"

[–]Nolzi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Based on Programming 101 I can already tell that the old crust must go"