On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 13:52 Tom Marchant <
0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

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> The point of using a term like "any hexadecimal character" is to
> indicate that all 256 possible values in the byte are acceptable.


The problem with that is “any hexadecimal character “ limits it to only
sixteen different values: 0-9,A-F.
The correct description would be “any eight-bit binary value”.

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> It could just as well be "a byte with any hexadecimal value", or "a
> byte with any binary value".
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> Tom Marchant
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