hexadecimal
Speech parts
1. hexadecimal - Noun
2. hexadecimal - Adjective
Meaning
of or pertaining to a number system having 16 as its base
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Alternatively, some authors denote hexadecimal values using a suffix or subscript.
Amdahl 470V/6 and related CPUs supported four hexadecimal digits on those CPUs which had the optional second channel unit installed, for a total of 32 channels.
As an example, the hexadecimal number 2AF3 16 can be converted to an equivalent decimal representation.
As shipped, the machine incorporated a "monitor" program which supported functions such as displaying and altering the contents of the computer's RAM memory in hexadecimal format, either one byte at a time or in blocks of 256 bytes at once.
An exceptional condition such as division by zero would abort the program yielding only a hexadecimal core dump.
Although most humans are familiar with the base 10 system, it is much easier to map binary to hexadecimal than to decimal because each hexadecimal digit maps to a whole number of bits (4 10 ).