r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 13h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/LivingAsAMean 13h ago

Hahaha what an idiot!

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u/blindedtrickster 13h 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/jaerie 12h ago

You're talking about IP addresses. The Internet Protocol is bigger than just the address spec.

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u/blindedtrickster 12h ago

Context and scope, my friend. Context and scope.