Computer programmers who need to do some thinking in binary often use hexadecimal numbers as a convenient shorthand for binary. You'll see how that works later. First, though, we need to practice using hexadecimal numbers. You need 16 different symbols to write numbers in base 16.
Exercises Translate each of the following hexadecimal numbers to decimal.
Translate each of the following decimal numbers to hexadecimal. A bit is one binary digit. A byte is an eight-bit number.