These are used quite often to represent values stored in bytes - 1 byte is represented as two hexadecimal digits. For example, both the MAC address of a network card and the new IP addresses (IPv6) are usually shown as hexadecimal.
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0xFFEF + 1 = 0xFFF0.
That can't be an octal number; it has an 8 in it.
Computers do much of their processing in binary. Hexadecimal is used as a kind of shortcut (easier to read for humans): each hexadecimal digit represents four binary digits.
13541
Hexa-decimal representation is given by, * 24 - 18 * 25 - 19 * 30 - 1E