Hexadecimal Number Representations

Learn to represent numbers in a hexadecimal base system and why this number system is so useful.

Hexadecimal representation (base sixteen)

If we can count up to sixteen, twelve stones fit in one group, but we need more symbols:

A,B,C,D,E,A, B, C, D, E, and FF for ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen, respectively.

Examples:

  • 12dec=C  12_{\text{dec}} = C\space\space in hexadecimal representation (notation)

  • 123dec=(7161+11160)dec=(7B)hex123_{\text{dec}} = (7*16^1 + 11*16^0)_{\text{dec}} = (7B)_{\text{hex}} ...