On computers, data is stored using a variety of numerical formats. Many programming languages and applications use hexadecimal notation for numbers. Whereas decimal number formatting uses base ten, ...

Hexadecimal close hexadecimalA number system using 16 symbols from 0-9 and A-F, also known as base 16 and hex. numbers are a base-16 system as there are 16 digits. The first ten digits are 0 to 9, and ...

I ended my post on IPv6 address design saying I would follow up by showing you a few simple tricks for working with hexadecimal numbers. Then the long-predicted depletion of the IANA pool of IPv4 ...

Website addresses are often full of random-seeming percent signs and extra characters. But those symbols have a purpose: They show that certain characters are encoded in hexadecimal numbers, or base ...

Last time I talked about how to use AWK (or, more probably the GNU AWK known as GAWK) to process text files. You might be thinking: why did I care? Hardware hackers don’t need text files, right? Maybe ...