In html programming, colors can be represented by a 6-digit hexadecimal number: FFFFFF represents white whereas 000000 represents black. In hex, these can be represented in a friendlier fashion, ranging from 00 to FF. This means one byte can carry binary values from 0000 0000 to 1111 1111. Each hex digit represents four binary digits therefore, hex is a language to write binary in an abbreviated form.įour binary digits (also called nibbles) make up half a byte.
Hex is used in mathematics and information technologies as a more friendly way to represent binary numbers. The letters are used because of the need to represent the values 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 each in one single symbol. These are the 10 decimal digits (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) and the first six letters of the English alphabet (A, B, C, D, E, F). As a base-16 numeral system, it uses 16 symbols. The hexadecimal system (shortly hex), uses the number 16 as its base (radix). Multiply every digit with 16 power of digit location.
See below of the page to check the hex to decimal chart. We need to know the decimal equivalent of every hex number digit. Hex is a base 16 number and decimal is a base 10 number.
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