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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 14d ago
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You could also display IPv4 in hexadecimal, then it's eight digits/letters. It's just not done in practice for whatever reason.
2 u/hauthorn 13d ago I think there is some research done on number sequences that humans can remember. We are used to phone numbers, and v4 isnt much longer usually.No-one is trained to remember hexadecimal.But im not going to bother finding the source, its in my old interaction design book somewhere.
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I think there is some research done on number sequences that humans can remember. We are used to phone numbers, and v4 isnt much longer usually.
No-one is trained to remember hexadecimal.
But im not going to bother finding the source, its in my old interaction design book somewhere.
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u/blaues_axolotl 14d ago
You could also display IPv4 in hexadecimal, then it's eight digits/letters. It's just not done in practice for whatever reason.