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also - not pointing any fingers - I suspect for the same reason hexadecimal (which programmers shortened to hex) was used over the proper Latin sexadecimal.

• romwell 8y ago
  Hm, I never realized that hexadecimal mixes the Greek prefix (hexa-) with Latin suffix (-decimal). However, wouldn't proper Latin be sedecimal?
• hinkley 8y ago
  If I wrote things in sex I’d probably get fired.