How would you misread the values? I suppose the symbols for 0x1/0x4 or 0x2/0x8 could be written sloppily enough to be confused, but it's no worse than trying to

How would you misread the values? I suppose the symbols for 0x1/0x4 or 0x2/0x8 could be written sloppily enough to be confused, but it's no worse than trying to distinguish sloppily-written arabic numeral symbols. In fact, I suspect that these would be significantly easier to distinguish.