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Hexadecimal (Base 16) Notation

A hexadecimal number has the general form:

displaymath1191

tex2html_wrap1189

displaymath1192

where tex2html_wrap_inline1195 is a digit 0-9 or a letter A-F.

Example:

tabular363

Conversion between binary and hexadecimal is easy because tex2html_wrap_inline1213 One hex digit corresponds to four bits. Two hex digits equal a byte.

Example:

tex2html_wrap_inline1215


Mitch Roth
Wed Oct 9 13:38:30 ADT 1996