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To be fair, there are many different bases. I wonder if there’s anything special about base 10 that made them support it.
by simonh 4y ago
To be fair, there are many different bases. I wonder if there’s anything special about base 10 that made them support it.
- mlyle 4y agoIPv4 addresses are written in base 10 for human users. The "special" case is supporting network addresses to be written as 10.2932832 ("convenient" for class A's), 172.16.61031 (ditto for B's), or just one big address like 39282329, when we're used to 4 octets separated by dots. Not every bit of host software supports these cases anymore, as basically their sole remaining use case is as a curiosity or to circumvent bad security controls.
- simonh 4y agoBah, humans!