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TL;DR

Give the number box the ability to parse simple math equations and hex numbers.

What ?

When using combinators you often need to add some constant:


It would be useful if we could set numbers like "80*8+4", press enter and have the game automatically convert it to 644.
Same thing for hex numbers, would be nice to just write 0xFFFF and have it converted to 65535. Would be very useful for bit operations.

Related suggestion threads:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=50305 Allow hexadecimal entry for constant values in combinators
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=14686 Accept hexadecimal input for numbers
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=53999 Suggetion: Binary combinator variables

That would be very cool, especially the bit keyboard.
I use helper excel tables for input otherwise, which is pretty cumbersome.

+1 on that

Adding onto this, an option to view as hexadecimal would be useful as well. Much easier to pick out your packed values from hexadecimal than decimal.

Another +1.

Helmod does this with it's "how much do you want" field.

With FFF 388 this is confirmed part of the expansion. Anyone knows if Hex is a thing as well?