Comment on An argument starter: which of these is the "second set of 4 digits in base 10"? (Body)
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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While 0 has no value and is often placed after 9 on keyboards, you asked about digits in a base and not numbers. This becomes clear if you describe the various bases.
- Binary is 0-1
- Octal is 0-7
- Decimal is 0-9
- Hexadecimal is 0-F
If you sort zero at the end, you’d need to spell out the digits or label them all as 1-0, which isn’t very descriptive.
Mind you, “zero-first ordering of digits” is not a fundamental rule, since the glyphs only have a need to be sorted when they stand for a numerical value . And if you used a phrase like “first X digits” without noting a range the omission would be a composition error.