note AnomalousMonk <p> See [doc://hex]. </P> <c> >perl -wMstrict -le "my $i = 100; my $x = hex $i; print $x; printf qq{0x%x \n}, $x; ;; $i = '200'; $x = hex $i; print $x; printf qq{0x%x \n}, $x; " 256 0x100 512 0x200 </C> 1007257 1007257