COM1100 -- Winter2000 -- Yuhong Yin
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Hexadecimal
number system
nIn hexadecimal number system, we
can have :
nnumbers like 876 consisting
solely of decimal-like digits,
nnumbers like 8A55F consisting of
digits and letters,
nand numbers like FFE consisting
solely of letters.
nOccasionally, a hexadecimal
number spells a common
word such as FACE or FEED which can appear
strange to programmers.