Comment by Spivak
7 hours ago
We probably wouldn't have chosen hex in a theoretical world where bytes were 10 bits, right? It would probably be two groups of 5 like 02:21 == 85 (like an ip address) or five groups of two 0x01111 == 85. It just has to be one of its divisors.
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