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### Numbers

You can always enter numbers in octal, decimal, or hexadecimal in GDB by the usual conventions: octal numbers begin with `0`, decimal numbers end with `.`, and hexadecimal numbers begin with `0x`. Numbers that begin with none of these are, by default, entered in base 10; likewise, the default display for numbers--when no particular format is specified--is base 10. You can change the default base for both input and output with the `set radix` command.

`set input-radix` base``
  Set the default base for numeric input. Supported choices for base are decimal 8, 10, or 16. base must itself be specified either unambiguously or using the current default radix; for example, any of

                set radix 012
                set radix 10.
                set radix 0xa

  sets the base to decimal. On the other hand, `set radix 10` leaves the radix unchanged no matter what it was.

`set output-radix` base``
  Set the default base for numeric display. Supported choices for base are decimal 8, 10, or 16. base must itself be specified either unambiguously or using the current default radix.
`show input-radix`
  Display the current default base for numeric input.
`show output-radix`
  Display the current default base for numeric display.