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So, you have to use a string literal and TO_NUMBER every time you want a hex literal? Does Oracle still think it's running on a 60s era prehistoric pre-mainframe that does base-ten arithmetic?
Ah ha. So I did misinterpret you before. I've never run into this because I don't have a reason to be doing anything with hex literals (fortunately) in PL/SQL.
You are. NUMBER is base-100.