Don't mean a thing if it ain't got that base-16 notation

[Derleth]

Which group invented the hexadecimal notation we use today (i.e.: 0-F)?

[geekgurl]

hmmm...extremely tough question - one which I really can't answer! You could probably go back as far as the Mayans or Egyptians and be able to find some sort of psuedo-decimal counting system.

BUT one thing I found out is the term was coined in the early 1960s to replace the earlier "sexadecimal", which was too racy and amusing for stuffy IBM, and later adopted by the rest of the industry.

[Harmonious Discord]

Wag.
Probably those Greeks that have all those extra fingers on their hands.

[Harmonious Discord]

By the way Derleth, in August I would expect you would vacation around Sauk Prairie, Wisconsin. Is this a good guess?

[friedo]

Don't know who actually invented modern base-16 notation, but it's been in use since at least the 60's, probably earlier, when it was realized that entering bits in base-2 was a pain in the ass. Entering them in base-16 is, of course, four orders of magnitude easier.

And you know you have no life when you've inadvertantly memorized the correlations between each hexadecimal digit and its binary counterpart.