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Jeremy Nofs 2019-02-14 14:11:24 -05:00 committed by Randell Dawson
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## Uses of Hexadecimal in Low Level Programming
Hexadecimal first found its use in Computer Science as a convenience feature.
Data in our computers has a lowest common storage unit, the Byte.
Data in our computers has a lowest common storage unit, the byte.
Each byte contains 8 bits, and is able to store a number between 0 and 255 inclusive.
Hexadecimal has the advantage of being terse and having well defined boundaries.