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		xigoi on May 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Memory Allocation Is it really necessary to use hexadecimal at all in the article? Decimal works just fine for pointers, it's just not conventionally used.

samwho on May 23, 2023 [–]

I went back and forth on this and decided in the end that it makes sense to use hex for 2 reasons:

1. It's what people are going to be exposed to in any material outside of this post. 2. Within this post, it helps distinguish between pointers and sizes/values.

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