-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.21 Nov 2004

You don't understand. I'm not skipping letters, I'm simply adding on an additional letter, Z, whose value is 35 (contrary to the idiotic error in my last comment). A's value is still 10.

Let us use base 10, where letters A-F are used to represent numbers 10 through 15. Then DEAF = (13 * 1000) + (14 * 100) + (10 * 10) + (15 * 1). This doesn't magically make it hexademical, in which DEAF = (13 * 4096) + (14 * 256) + (10 * 16) + (15 * 1).