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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put 4d1dfe2cde2f897c2a0003e3

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