FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -The need for hexadecimal numbers The format of hex numbers is more compact than binary numbers because they can represent large binary numbers with fewer digits. As a result, they are easier to understand than long binary strings of 1s and 0s.

Detailed explanation-2: -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 (410).

Detailed explanation-3: -(HEXadecimal) Hexadecimal means 16, and the base 16 numbering system is used as a shorthand for representing binary numbers. Each half byte (four bits) is assigned a hex digit or letter as in the following chart with its decimal and binary equivalents.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hexadecimal is used extensively in assembly programming languages and in machine code. It is often used to refer to memory addresses. It can be used during the debugging stage of writing a computer program and to represent numbers stored in a CPU’s registers or in main memory.