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== Uses ==
The hexadecimal number system is used widely in the Electronics and Computer Industry, as although digital electronics is based on gates with only two states and is therefore fundamentally binary, binary numbers can quickly become long and hard to transcribe without errors. Their hexadecimal equivalents are much shorter and easier to remember, and have a straight-forward way of conversion to/from binary
=== Hex Dump ===
A textual representation of data where values are expressed in hexadecimal. Often used to show the contents of regions of memory where both the memory addresses as well as the memory contents may be expressed in hexadecimal.
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