hexadecimal system

This first hexadecimal system, proposed in the 19th century, has thus far not achieved widespread usage.

The hexadecimal system can express negative numbers the same way as in decimal: 2A to represent 42 and so on.

Traditional Chinese weighing units was a hexadecimal system.

For external use by computer specialists, this binary representation is sometimes presented in the related octal or hexadecimal systems.

A standard hexadecimal system would not work in this case because, for one thing, years previously entered in a database would have the wrong values.

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It has the advantage of not requiring any extra symbols as digits (the hexadecimal system is base-16 and therefore needs six additional symbols beyond 0-9).

For example, in decimal the digit "1" represents the integer one, and in the hexadecimal system, the letter "A" represents the number ten.

The hexadecimal system uses all the digits from the decimal system, plus the letters "A" through "F", which represent the numbers 10 to 15 respectively.

Comparatively, the decimal system is based on the number ten, the hexadecimal system is based on the number sixteen, and so on.

The hexadecimal system is used as "shorthand" for binary-every 4 binary digits (bits) relate to one and only one hexadecimal digit.

As with other numeral systems, the hexadecimal system can be used to represent rational numbers, although recurring digits are common since sixteen (10) has only a single prime factor (two):

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Nonary (base 9, each digit is two ternary digits) or septemvigesimal (base 27, each digit is three ternary digits) is often used, similar to how octal and hexadecimal systems are used in place of binary.

Only one character may be inserted in the units place and that character will be the face value of the units place and it may be any character from zero to one less than the base (0-9 in decimal but 0-F in the Hexadecimal system common in computing).

This all makes it a more convenient number system for computing fractions than most other number systems in common use, such as the decimal, vigesimal, binary, octal and hexadecimal systems, although the sexagesimal system (where the reciprocals of all 5-smooth numbers terminate) does better in this respect (but at the cost of an unwieldy multiplication table).