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Letters are numbers

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

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Letters can also be numbers. Not sure how it works but it does

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761011161161011141153299971103297108115111329810132110117109981011141154632781111163211511711410132104111119321051163211911111410711532981171163210511632100111101115

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Solutions by @frandibar:

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76 active golfers, 167 entries

Solutions by @frandibar:

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#39 - Francisco Dibar / @frandibar

01/12/2011 at 02:42PM

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#>44 - Francisco Dibar / @frandibar

01/12/2011 at 02:38PM