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Comment by bloopernova

5 months ago

On reddit recently I read that X has the ASCII decimal 88.

We live in a bizarre yet tumultuous time.

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itishappy  5 months ago

60+ crazy years of ASCII.

didgeoridoo  5 months ago

But it… doesn’t?

  • itishappy  5 months ago

        >>> chr(88)
        'X'
        >>> ord('X')
        88
    

    You might be looking at the hexadecimal representation instead.

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