What’s in a digit
If you’ve been following any of the major user-contributed blogs/news sites in the last few days, you’ll most likely be aware of a certain “16-digit hexadecimal number” that has been the center of some pretty interesting happenings.
Now, here’s the problem: for anyone that’s passed counting-without-your-fingers, there are clearly 32 alphanumerical characters in the sequence. Folks, that’s a 16-byte hexadecimal number, not 16-digits.
Getting the units correct, as always, is important.
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