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Sums of Powers
Positional Number
System
• Each position indicates some power of
the base
• ex. ones, tens, hundreds, thousands,
etc.
• We can describe a number as the sum
of various powers of the base
• Ex. 123 = 1x102 + 2x101 + 3x100
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Hexadecimal
• Binary numbers are very long, and hard
for humans to remember
• If we group digits (bits) together, we
The Joy of Hex have less to remember
• There are 16 possible 4-bit combinations
• This is base 16 (hexadecimal)
• We use A-F for the extra digits
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