On: C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte

[Spivak]

We probably wouldn't have chosen hex in a theoretical world where bytes were 10 bits, right? It would probably be two groups of 5 like 02:21 == 85 (like an ip address) or five groups of two 0x01111 == 85. It just has to be one of its divisors.

[shultays → Spivak]

  02:21

or instead of digits from 0 to F, the letters would go up V. 85 would be 0x2k I think (2 * 32 + 21)