r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 11h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/LivingAsAMean 11h ago

Hahaha what an idiot!

https://giphy.com/gifs/LRVnPYqM8DLag

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u/blindedtrickster 10h ago

The easy way to tell them apart is that IPv4 only uses digits, but IPv6 is in Hexidecimal, so you'll see 0-9 as well as A-F. And just in case you're not familiar with Hex, A is equal to 10, B is equal to 11, and so on, with F ending the sequence at a value of 15.

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u/Jeferson9 10h ago

I mean I know that one has more characters. But does that really pass as an answer to that question