Early History
The creation of computers lead to the creation of files containing data in various formats. For some, it was convenient to be able to access the data as a series of raw digits. Pairs of hexadecimal digits are the current standard but this is arbitrary as not all machines use words easily split into bytes. Octal was also common.
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“Three early risings make an extra day.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)