Many digital electronic systems work in hexadecimal instead of binary.

More Questions from Number Systems and Codes

• The hexadecimal equivalent of a decimal number would produce a larger number than the original decimal number.
• The primary advantage of the hexadecimal number system is the ease with which conversion can be made between binary and hexadecimal numbers.
• 1210 = 11012 = C16 = 00010010 BCD
• When converting from decimal to binary by the repeated division-by-two method, the initial remainder becomes the MSD.
• A binary number can be converted to a decimal number by summing the decimal values of the weights of all the 1s in the binary number.
• ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
• In ASCII code, the hexadecimal sequence 53 54 55 44 45 4E 54 decodes to STUDENT.
• In odd parity, 100011010 would pass the parity check.
• Repeated division-by-10 is used to convert decimal numbers to binary numbers.
• The 2's complement of a binary number is derived by adding 1 to the 1's complement.

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