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by manningthegoose 2592 days ago
Not really, since a “hexadecimal dollar” is really just a fictional measurement of money that Knuth has created (which he designates with symbol 0x$). I guess if it were $0x3.00, you could interpret the quantity to be regular dollars in hex form, which would just evaluate to 3, instead of the 7.68 Knuth is actually offering