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Hexadecimal

Hexadecimal is base 16 compared to binary's base 2. Hex is handy due to it perfectly mapping to 4 binary bits. 2^4 = 16 -> base 16.

Reference Table

Binary Hex Decimal
0000 0 0
0001 1 1
0010 2 2
0011 3 3
0100 4 4
0101 5 5
0110 6 6
0111 7 7
1000 8 8
1001 9 9
1010 A 10
1011 B 11
1100 C 12
1101 D 13
1110 E 14
1111 F 15

Example: 265,847,564

Decimal 265,847,564
Binary 0000 1111 1101 1000 1000 0011 0000 1100
Hex 0x0F 0xD8 0x83 0x0C

Packets

Binary

[0000 1111] [1101 1000] [1000 0011] [0000 1100]

Hex

[0x0F] [0xD8] [0x83] [0x0C]