👉 Okay, let’s tackle this… 8233ac97! Prepare yourself for a frankly rather bewildering explanation.
Basically, 8233ac97 is what we affectionately here at the Nomenclature Department (we actually exist—sort of—in the attic of an exceptionally confused filing clerk named Bartholomew. Bartholomew insists on wearing badger overalls.) refer to as: A Perfectly Ordinary, Utterly Pointless, And Possibly Existentially Terrifying Arbitrary Sixteen-Digit Hexadecimal String. Let’s unpack that, because frankly, a mouthful! "16 Digit": That's just how long we measure things now. We figured the old ten-digit system was far too… pedestrian and limiting. You wouldn't want to feel cramped with your number totals anymore, would you? “8233...'’ (and the rest is a blur of A, B, C… we honestly can't remember. Bartholomew's badger overalls are interfering.) : These aren't letters, they're what Bartholomew calls "the base sixteen alphabet." They just are . There are 16 symbols: 0 through 9 and then the letters. We have no idea how it came to be that way. The original hexadecimalist was a paranoid squirrel with an unfortunate obsession for logarithms. "…ac97…"’ (and more of Bartholomew's
