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Some authors prefer a text subscript, such as decimal and hex , or d and h. In linear text systems, such as those used in most computer programming environments, a variety of methods have arisen:. There is no universal convention to use lowercase or uppercase for the letter digits, and each is prevalent or preferred in particular environments by community standards or convention.

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The use of the letters A through F to represent the digits above 9 was not universal in the early history of computers. There are no traditional numerals to represent the quantities from ten to fifteen — letters are used as a substitute — and most European languages lack non-decimal names for the numerals above ten. Even though English has names for several non-decimal powers pair for the first binary power, score for the first vigesimal power, dozen , gross and great gross for the first three duodecimal powers , no English name describes the hexadecimal powers decimal 16, , , , Systems of counting on digits have been devised for both binary and hexadecimal.

The hexadecimal system can express negative numbers the same way as in decimal: Hexadecimal can also be used to express the exact bit patterns used in the processor , so a sequence of hexadecimal digits may represent a signed or even a floating point value. Just as decimal numbers can be represented in exponential notation , so too can hexadecimal numbers. By convention, the letter P or p , for "power" represents times two raised to the power of , whereas E or e serves a similar purpose in decimal as part of the E notation.

The number after the P is decimal and represents the binary exponent. Usually the number is normalised so that the leading hexadecimal digit is 1 unless the value is exactly 0. Hexadecimal exponential notation is required by the IEEE binary floating-point standard. This notation can be used for floating-point literals in the C99 edition of the C programming language.

Most computers manipulate binary data, but it is difficult for humans to work with the large number of digits for even a relatively small binary number. Although most humans are familiar with the base 10 system, it is much easier to map binary to hexadecimal than to decimal because each hexadecimal digit maps to a whole number of bits 4 This example converts 2 to base ten.

Since each position in a binary numeral can contain either a 1 or a 0, its value may be easily determined by its position from the right:.

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With little practice, mapping 2 to F 16 in one step becomes easy: The advantage of using hexadecimal rather than decimal increases rapidly with the size of the number. When the number becomes large, conversion to decimal is very tedious. However, when mapping to hexadecimal, it is trivial to regard the binary string as 4-digit groups and map each to a single hexadecimal digit. This example shows the conversion of a binary number to decimal, mapping each digit to the decimal value, and adding the results.

Compare this to the conversion to hexadecimal, where each group of four digits can be considered independently, and converted directly:. Although quaternary base 4 is little used, it can easily be converted to and from hexadecimal or binary. Each hexadecimal digit corresponds to a pair of quaternary digits and each quaternary digit corresponds to a pair of binary digits. The octal base 8 system can also be converted with relative ease, although not quite as trivially as with bases 2 and 4.

Each octal digit corresponds to three binary digits, rather than four. Therefore we can convert between octal and hexadecimal via an intermediate conversion to binary followed by regrouping the binary digits in groups of either three or four. As with all bases there is a simple algorithm for converting a representation of a number to hexadecimal by doing integer division and remainder operations in the source base.

In theory, this is possible from any base, but for most humans only decimal and for most computers only binary which can be converted by far more efficient methods can be easily handled with this method. The following is a JavaScript implementation of the above algorithm for converting any number to a hexadecimal in String representation. Its purpose is to illustrate the above algorithm.

To work with data seriously, however, it is much more advisable to work with bitwise operators. It is also possible to make the conversion by assigning each place in the source base the hexadecimal representation of its place value and then performing multiplication and addition to get the final representation. That is, to convert the number B3AD to decimal one can split the hexadecimal number into its digits: B 11 10 , 3 3 10 , A 10 10 and D 13 10 , and then get the final result by multiplying each decimal representation by 16 p , where p is the corresponding hex digit position, counting from right to left, beginning with 0.

Most modern computer systems with graphical user interfaces provide a built-in calculator utility, capable of performing conversions between various radices, in general including hexadecimal. In Microsoft Windows , the Calculator utility can be set to Scientific mode called Programmer mode in some versions , which allows conversions between radix 16 hexadecimal , 10 decimal , 8 octal and 2 binary , the bases most commonly used by programmers.

In Scientific Mode, the on-screen numeric keypad includes the hexadecimal digits A through F, which are active when "Hex" is selected. In hex mode, however, the Windows Calculator supports only integers. As with other numeral systems, the hexadecimal system can be used to represent rational numbers , although repeating expansions are common since sixteen 10 hex has only a single prime factor two:.

For any base, 0. Thus, whether dividing one by two for binary or dividing one by sixteen for hexadecimal, both of these fractions are written as 0. Because the radix 16 is a perfect square 4 2 , fractions expressed in hexadecimal have an odd period much more often than decimal ones, and there are no cyclic numbers other than trivial single digits. Recurring digits are exhibited when the denominator in lowest terms has a prime factor not found in the radix; thus, when using hexadecimal notation, all fractions with denominators that are not a power of two result in an infinite string of recurring digits such as thirds and fifths.

This makes hexadecimal and binary less convenient than decimal for representing rational numbers since a larger proportion lie outside its range of finite representation. All rational numbers finitely representable in hexadecimal are also finitely representable in decimal, duodecimal and sexagesimal: Conversely, only a fraction of those finitely representable in the latter bases are finitely representable in hexadecimal. For example, decimal 0. However, hexadecimal is more efficient than bases 12 and 60 for representing fractions with powers of two in the denominator e.

The table below gives the expansions of some common irrational numbers in decimal and hexadecimal. Powers of two have very simple expansions in hexadecimal. The first sixteen powers of two are shown below. Webster's Third New International online derives hexadecimal as an alteration of the all-Latin sexadecimal which appears in the earlier Bendix documentation. The earliest date attested for hexadecimal in Merriam-Webster Collegiate online is , placing it safely in the category of international scientific vocabulary ISV.

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