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authorKartik Agaram <vc@akkartik.com>2019-02-15 16:26:14 -0800
committerKartik Agaram <vc@akkartik.com>2019-02-15 16:26:14 -0800
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@@ -126,7 +126,9 @@ This program sums the first 10 natural numbers. By convention I use horizontal
 tabstops to help read instructions, dots to help follow the long lines,
 comments before groups of instructions to describe their high-level purpose,
 and comments at the end of complex instructions to state the low-level
-operation they perform. Numbers are always in hexadecimal (base 16).
+operation they perform. Numbers are always in hexadecimal (base 16); the '0x'
+prefix is optional, and I tend to include it as a reminder when numbers look
+like decimal numbers or words.
 
 As you can see, programming in SubX requires the programmer to know the (kinda
 complex) structure of x86 instructions, all the different operands that an
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