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0x in and of itself is not necessarily a reference to crypto. In many programming languages 0x at the start of a number means the number is encoded in base 16

• jrockway 5y ago
  What's interesting to me is that there is also a contingent of people that represent hexadecimal numbers with an "h" suffix, like FACEDEEDh. I always wondered what pushed people one way or the other. I learned 0x first but see "h" most in assembly code listings (which was indeed not my first programming language) and hardware datasheets.
  • IncRnd 5y ago
    That's definitely true. I think it comes from the preference of the author of an assembler's parser regarding how to recognize a number's base - either by analyzing the string or by forcing the progammer to declare upfront.
  • bspammer 5y ago
    The prefix seems better to me because you read it first, and also the x is a more clear marker than h because it’s at the opposite end of the alphabet to the rest of the hexadecimal digits.
  • 1597 5y ago
    "h" suffix is a pain in the ass in MASM and probably other assemblers (a leading 0 is required for hex literals that begin with a letter to distinguish from identifiers e.g. mov eax, 0FACEDEEDh)
• cableshaft 5y ago
  I'm aware it means that normally, I've used that while programming every once in a while. But if their most previous name was .eth, it almost certainly is a reference to crypto.