Binary and hexadecimal numbers systems underpin the way modern computer systems work. Low-level interactions with hexadecimal (hex) and binary are uncommon in the world of Java programming, but ...

Decide how you want to represent your date in hexadecimal. Many computing applications use UNIX time to represent dates. In this format, a date is represented as the number of days since the 1st ...

I ended my post on IPv6 address design saying I would follow up by showing you a few simple tricks for working with hexadecimal numbers. Then the long-predicted depletion of the IANA pool of IPv4 ...

IPv6 addresses are 128 bits in length and are made up of hexadecimal characters. In IPv4, each octet consists of a decimal number ranging from 0 to 255.

Log out of Google and search for [binary], [octal] and [hexadecimal] and you will see a little geeky easter egg. The easter egg shows the value of the results in that number systems.

Since in hexadecimal the second digit from the right represents the 16s position (that’s the decimal 16), the 1 means decimal 16. The “obase” setting means “output base”.