Calculators on desktops (was Re: Octal)

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Friday 01 September 2006 05:54 pm, aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> I have never seen a hex number with a decimal point anyway... do they exist
> and/or serve a purpose, or was it just a demonstrate your point?

Actually if one were present it would be a hexadecimal point,  I'd think.  
I've never seen one either,  nor any reference to one,  but I have seen 
something or other referring to binary points.

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