One of the basic requirements of being literate is to be able to count, and that is called numeracy. This involves not just the familiarity with how to pronounce each number, but to be familiar with how to write those right digits to represent them. Knowing all these, one can say that he/she is already knowledgeable of how to read numbers.
But college life, as usual, has its own way of telling that our childhood is full of lies - even with numbers.
Who would have thought that with the demands of this information age, numbers were given new ways to represent vast quantities?!
The so-normal decimal number system found new companies - the binary, octal, and hexadecimal number systems. All these serve various purposes not known to many. Good example is the notation for colors which uses the hexadecimal number system.
It's just surprising that I learned this revelation exactly on the 6939th day of my existence (1101100011011 in binary, 15433 in octal, and 0x1b1b in hexadecimal -which I justfound online).
And just so you know, the day I knew all these was my 19th birthday.
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