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jjmarr
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The 12-bit rainbow palette
Why is 12 bits 4 characters? Shouldn't it be 3 hexadecimal digits (as shown on the website), since each digit is 4 bits?
saurik
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3 hexadecimal digits and one # symbol is 4 characters.
shadowfacts
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Four characters counting the pound sign.
tom_
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It takes fewer keypresses to refer to it simply as #, which is worth doing as its name is locale dependent.
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