Number literals Traditional Forth often use HEX/DEC switches to go from decimal to hexadecimal parsing. Collapse OS parses literals in a way that is closer to C. Straight numbers are decimals, numbers starting with "0x" are hexadecimals (example "0x12ef"), "0b" prefixes indicate binary (example "0b1010"), char literals are single characters surrounded by ' (example 'X'). Char literals can't be used for whitespaces.