[Newbies] In Squeak SmallTalk, what can I do to display a number in any hex I want?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:25 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Chris Cunningham <
>> cunningham.cb at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de
>>> > wrote:
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>>>>> The only somewhat commonly used bases are 2, 8, 10, 13, and 16, as far
>>>> as I know.
>>>>
>>>> - Bert -​
>>>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> I haven't run across a reason to use base 13.  What domain was that in?
>>> Just curious,
>>> cbc
>>>
>> ​
>> The answer is 42.
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>> ;)
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
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> And Adams swears this was never planned.  Pure co-incidence that it worked
> out that way.  Hmmmmmm.....?
> cheers -ben
>

​Yep. For those not yet in on the joke:

In Douglas Adams "Hitchhiker" trilogy the number 42 plays an important
role, and at some point it was defined as 6x9. Intended as a joke, it
turned out that this is actually correct in base 13, and can be written
easily in Smalltalk, but not most other computer languages:

13r6 * 13r9 = 13r42
=> true

- Bert -​
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