S6:E1 Data Types: Binary and Hexadecimal Conversion

08/12/2025 13 min Temporada 6 Episodio 1

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This episode, "Data Types T1 Data types, binary and hexadecimal.pdf", serves as an educational guide, likely for an OCR A Level Computer Science H446 – Paper 1 course. It focuses on primitive data types in programming, such as integers, real/float numbers, Booleans, characters, and strings, explaining how they are fundamentally stored as binary data. The document thoroughly explains number systems, specifically denary (base 10), binary (base 2), and hexadecimal (base 16), detailing their structures, place values, and conversion methods between them. Finally, it highlights the practical advantages of hexadecimal for readability, conciseness, and its common uses in computing, like color codes and MAC addresses.

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