2 Sep
2006
2 Sep
'06
3:29 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
wrote:
.. the generalised term is 'radix point'.
(not intending to be a fanatical purist)
I have never seen a hex number with a
decimal point anyway... do they exist and/or
serve a purpose, or was it just a demonstrate
your point?
The fanatical purists will insist that it is NOT a "decimal point",
it is a "Hexadecimal point" ("sexadecimal" if not yielding to
IBM's
blue-nosed attitudes), "octal point", or "binary point".