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Why is 12 bits 4 characters? Shouldn't it be 3 hexadecimal digits (as shown on the website), since each digit is 4 bits?

• saurik 2y ago
  3 hexadecimal digits and one # symbol is 4 characters.
• shadowfacts 2y ago
  Four characters counting the pound sign.
  • tom_ 2y ago
    It takes fewer keypresses to refer to it simply as #, which is worth doing as its name is locale dependent.
  • deleted 2y ago
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