Questions tagged [hexadecimal]
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Parse 8 bytes to date time
I am trying to parse a file created by another software, but I cant identify a pattern on how this datetime is saved. There doesnt seem to be any consistency. Programming language of the software is C+...
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What is this numeral system notation?
I used Google search to convert numbers from one numeral system to another. 10 to binary is 0b1010; 10 to hexadecimal is 0xA. What's the meaning of 'b' and 'x', accordingly? I think these are ...
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If you had to represent a large number concisely would you use base 36 or ZZ?
According to Wikipedia: In mathematics and computing, hexadecimal (also base 16, or hex) is a positional system that represents numbers using a base of 16. Unlike the common way of representing ...
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Number system conversion
Why can't we directly convert octal number to base 8 to hexadecimal base 16 directly ? We can convert to octal by first converting it into binary equivalent, or by converting it to decimal equivalent ....
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Fast and simple hex compression
I'm working on a project that requires a TCP connection between a client and server. The current protocol encodes the data into hex and then sends it. However, hex increases the length of the payload ...
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If a number is too big does it spill over to the next memory location?
I've been reviewing C programming and there are just a couple things bothering me. Let's take this code for example: int myArray[5] = {1, 2, 2147483648, 4, 5}; int* ptr = myArray; int i; for(i=0; i&...
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