hexit
<jargon> /hek'sit/ A hexadecimal digit (0-9, and A-F or a-f). Used by
people who claim that there are only *ten* digits, sixteen-fingered human beings
being rather rare, despite what some keyboard designs might seem to imply (see
space-cadet keyboard).
[Jargon File]
(1996-03-09)
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