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Hexadecimal Numbers

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Representing a Word

(Image-1)

A word

Is a group of 16 consecutive bits

The bits

Are counted from right to left starting at 0 (Image-1):

Considered as a group of 16 bits (Image-1)

The most right bit of a word, bit 0, is called the least significant bit or Low Order bit or LO bit or LOBIT
The most left bit, bit 15, is called [...]

The Hexadecimal System

The hexadecimal system uses sixteen (16) symbols to represent a number

Since the Latin language consists of only 10 digits, we cannot make up new ones
The hexadecimal system uses alphabetic characters
After counting from 0 to 9, the system uses letters until it gets 16 different values
(B-1) The hexadecimal system counts as follows:

Example of (B-1)

0, 1, 2, [...]