>>OK, I'll repeat: hex is integer is hex is integer is hex is integer (*).
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>>Hex is not a different type of number. It's a way of representing one. Tracy is the same Tracy no matter how many different cameras you take her pictures with. My language reads the same words regardless of whether they were printed in Cyrillic or Latin.
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>The new Tracy is much better than the old one :) She found a secret of (hmm, forgot the last name - it was too hard to pronounce anyway - the secret of infinite youth).

Must be all those animals around the house - living with the nature and all that.

But then, I'm not sure it's such a big secret. My wife found it... I may not mention how many decades ago :).