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    1 year ago

    Dotted Decimal is just a human convention. IPs are just 32 bit numbers meaning binary digit, and octal, dotted decimal and Hex are all valid representations of that same number. Subnet masks work via binary math.

    Almost every single thing you would use an IP address for, you can substitute dotted decimal for octal or hex representations.