From a9a2a65c6f29110e67f33860eabb92060d8aa5dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shannon Booth <shannon.ml.booth@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2026 15:10:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Editorial: Add missing article before "hexadecimal number"

---
 url.bs | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/url.bs b/url.bs
index 5cc98800..3cbd105c 100644
--- a/url.bs
+++ b/url.bs
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ bytes that are not <a>ASCII bytes</a> might be insecure and is not recommended.
 
     <ol>
      <li><p>Let <var>bytePoint</var> be the two bytes after <var>byte</var> in <var>input</var>,
-     <a lt="isomorphic decode">decoded</a>, and then interpreted as hexadecimal number.
+     <a lt="isomorphic decode">decoded</a>, and then interpreted as a hexadecimal number.
      <!-- We should have a better definition for this. -->
 
      <li><p>Append a byte whose value is <var>bytePoint</var> to
@@ -1280,7 +1280,7 @@ actually doing that with the editors of this document first.
    <li><p>Let <var>value</var> and <var>length</var> be 0.
 
    <li><p>While <var>length</var> is less than 4 and <a>c</a> is an <a>ASCII hex digit</a>, set
-   <var>value</var> to <var>value</var> &times; 0x10 + <a>c</a> interpreted as hexadecimal number,
+   <var>value</var> to <var>value</var> &times; 0x10 + <a>c</a> interpreted as a hexadecimal number,
    and increase <var>pointer</var> and <var>length</var> by 1.
 
    <li>