Calculators on desktops (was Re: Octal)

[Brent Hilpert]

Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 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?
> 
> The fanatical purists will insist that it is NOT a "decimal point",
> it is a "Hexadecimal point" ("sexadecimal" if not yielding to IBM's
> blue-nosed attitudes), "octal point", or "binary point".

.. the generalised term is 'radix point'.

(not intending to be a fanatical purist)