Quote Originally Posted by stanav
Very interesting information from veryone, especially Szlamany... So basically, since everything is compiled to machine language, it's pretty safe to assume that regardless of what base we use to code (decimal, hex, octal... you name it), it's not going to make any difference. Is that right?
Yes - that is basically true.

When you assign a value to a variable in code - that literal can be pretty much any base.