[OT] I wonder.

[Richmond]

I don't know whether Hammer is going anywhere terribly productive:

http://hammer-language.com/

but having a dig in the functions yields a few that would be useful if
rolled into Livecode:

numToHex and hexToNum

converting back and forth between Hexadecimal and Decimal numbers.

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I'm not quite so sure about how useful

binaryToNum and numToBinary  might be.

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There is a number of things about timers and the constant 'interval':

"set the interval of card part 1 to 60

Specifies the pause between a timer part's messages. The interval is 
specified in /ticks/ i.e. 60ths of a second. To stop a timer, set its 
interval to 0."

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This is probably a place to visit, "nick ideas" and then leave.

Richmond.