The hexadecimal system is base 16.
There are 6 digits in a hexadecimal because the root, hex in math means six. Like hexagon which has 6 sides, so the hexadecimal has 6 digits.
8 in octal, 16 in hexadecimal.
16
16.
Used for what???The hexadecimal system is just a way to represent information. Each byte requires two hexadecimal digits. Modern computers have billions of bytes in RAM, and often a trillion or more bytes on the hard disk, so that would be billions or trillions of hexadecimal digits. Some examples of things that are often represented as hex digits: * An IPv6 address has 16 bytes - so, 32 hex digits. * A MAC address has 6 bytes (12 hex digits). * A register has a few bytes. The size varies, but is often 2-8 bytes.
Used for what???The hexadecimal system is just a way to represent information. Each byte requires two hexadecimal digits. Modern computers have billions of bytes in RAM, and often a trillion or more bytes on the hard disk, so that would be billions or trillions of hexadecimal digits. Some examples of things that are often represented as hex digits: * An IPv6 address has 16 bytes - so, 32 hex digits. * A MAC address has 6 bytes (12 hex digits). * A register has a few bytes. The size varies, but is often 2-8 bytes.
four
4 digits - representing 16 integers.
256 (162)
Five of them.
Yes. We could use decimal notation but hexadecimal is more convenient because it requires fewer digits and more closely reflects the way the machine addresses memory using its native binary notation. For instance, a 64-bit address in decimal requires 20 decimal digits (including leading zeroes) but only 16 hexadecimal digits. Moreover, the hexadecimal value can be easily translated into the actual binary value used by the machine because each hex digit maps 1:1 with every nybble of the binary value. A nybble is half-a-byte (4-bits). Since each address typically represents an 8-bit byte, the value of that byte can also be expressed using just 2 hexadecimal digits (00 to FF) whereas decimal notation would require 3 digits (000 to 255). If we used decimal notation to present the contents of a block of memory, then we wouldn't be able to fit as many columns of data on the screen at once. More importantly, when we look at the contents of memory we're generally more interested in what the computer sees, and hexadecimal notation more closely reflects what the computer sees.