Binary, Decimal, and Hexadecimal

Binary

Base 2.  0’s and 1’s.  Binary is how all computers store and deal with data, whether that data is representing numbers, words, images, audio, video, etc.  Each 0 or 1 in a computer is known as a bit.  Eight bits make a byte.  Each byte can represent upto 255 as a decimal.  However each byte can represent 256 numbers as it includes zero: 0-255 = 256 numbers.

Example:
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Video to follow.

Decimal

Base 10, no need for more detail, this is your everyday mathematics.

Hexadecimal

Base 16 – 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F