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Inside the computer everything operates with the notion of on or off. With this in mind, the use of binary is really self-explanatory as it consists of only 1s and 0s. Hexadecimal, like octal, works very well also as they're both based on powers of 2 (8 and 16) it's easy to use these as forms of shorthand for binary.
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