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Counting in base 16

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Since I was a child, I counted things in base 16. But remember that I was an average intelligent person and never made someone shout:

Oh, frabjous day! This kid just told me that he has 0x64 Lego bricks!

Someone

I always kept in mind 16 dots arranged in a square of 4x4. These dots were connected by a line every time I counted something, or someone said something.

This is the scheme (row-column matrix):

[0,1]-[1,1]-[1,0]-[0,0]
[3,2]-[2,2]-[2,3]-[3,3]
[0,2]-[1,2]-[1,3]-[0,3]
[3,1]-[2,1]-[2,0]-[3,0]

Usually, I ended my phrases when the square was filled up. With hindsight, I was a bizarre kid.

@online{zaerl2013-counting-in-base-16,
  author = {Francesco Bigiarini},
  title = {Counting in base 16},
  date = {2013-07-29},
  url = {https://zaerl.com/2013/07/29/counting-in-base-16/},
  urldate = {2013-07-29}
}

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