On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, William Overington wrote:
> Here is a system that I think would work.
>
> Consider please that there exists for the private use area the concept of
> the hexadecimal point. The term "hexadecimal point" is similar to the
> concept of a decimal point, the difference being that a decimal point is for
> base 10 numbers and a hexadecimal point is for base 16 numbers.
>
> [snip]
>
Wednesday, March 13, 2002
If we are to have a hexidecimal point should it have a code of its own to
distinguish it from the "." decimal point? U+2394 is an open hexagon
with aflat side down which might serve. Its name, "software-function symbol"
is unclear to me.
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