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 ...

Learn about digital data and how computers understand it, including binary, denary, hexadecimal numbers, units of data, character sets and logic gates.

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 ...

Now, you'll probably argue that you don't care about hexadecimal and that you'd prefer ordinary base 10 digits, but that's just a matter of point of view.

Hexadecimal and Beyond For whatever reason, 999 features tons of variations on hexadecimal numbers.

Microcontroller firmware usuallydeals with hexadecimal code. Yousometimes need to display the contentof registers, which requires a hexadecimal-to-BCD (binary-coded-decimal)-code conversion. The ...

Packed Decimal Data A packed decimal representation stores decimal digits in each "nibble" of a byte. Each byte has two nibbles, and each nibble is indicated by a hexadecimal digit. For example, the ...

Converting Hex to BCD sounds simple, but I've been trying to figure this out for hours without much to show for the effort (a search didn't reveal anything very helpful either).I'm trying to ...

If humans had eight fingers instead of ten, we might be using a somewhat different number system.

Packed Decimal Data A packed decimal representation stores decimal digits in each "nibble" of a byte. Each byte has two nibbles, and each nibble is indicated by a hexadecimal digit. For example, the ...