Hexadecimal

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1 English 1.1 Adjective 1.1.1 Translations 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translation 1.3 See also

English

Adjective

hexadecimal

1. (mathematics, computing) Hexadecimal (often abbreviated hex) is a base 16 numeral system, usually written using the symbols 0-9 and A-F. It is a particularly useful system with computers because there is an one to one mapping from four bits to the 16 hex digits.

Translations

• Chinese: 十六进制
• Danish: hexadecimale talsystem
• Dutch: hexadecimaal
• Esperanto: deksesuma
• Finnish: heksadesimaalinen
• German: hexadezimalsystem oder sedezimalsystem
• Hebrew: בסיס הקסדצימלי
• Japanese: 16進数
• Italian: sistema numerico esadecimale
• Norwegian: sekstentallsystemet
• Romanica: hexadecimal
• Russian: Шестнадцатиричные числа

Noun

hexadecimal

1. (mathematics, computing) Number expressed in the hexadecimal number system, which uses the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E and F.

Translation

• Finnish: heksadesimaaliluku

See also

• base
• binary
• decimal
• octal