December 2019
Beginner
510 pages
12h 7m
English
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Converting hexadecimal into binary
Each hexadecimal character is made up of 4 bits, so if we have a single character, we can quite simply convert it into its decimal equivalent and then convert that into binary, like we did in the previous chapter. The following table provides a mapping of single hexadecimal characters and their binary and decimal equivalents:
| Decimal | Hexadecimal | Binary |
| 0 | 0 | 0000 |
| 1 | 1 | 0001 |
| 2 | 2 | 0010 |
| 3 | 3 | 0011 |
| 4 | 4 | 0100 |
| 5 | 5 | 0101 |
| 6 | 6 | 0110 |
| 7 | 7 | 0111 |
| 8 | 8 | 1000 |
| 9 | 9 | 1001 |
| 10 | A | 1010 |
| 11 | B | 1011 |
| 12 | C | 1100 |
| 13 | D | 1101 |
| 14 | E | 1110 |
| 15 | F | 1111 |
That is pretty straightforward, but what if you have multiple hexadecimal characters? Would you believe it is as simple as doing each character separately and merging the ...
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