Sexadecimal Notation (Noun)
Meaning
Any notation that uses 16 different characters.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The computer programmer preferred using sexadecimal notation when working with colors in HTML coding.
- Hexadecimal notation is often used in computer programming to represent binary data in a more human-readable format.
- In mathematics, sexadecimal notation is another term for the base-16 numeral system.
- The programmer found it easier to understand the sexadecimal notation of the given binary code when it was represented as a combination of letters and numbers.
- Sexadecimal notation, also known as hexadecimal, uses 16 distinct characters to represent values, making it more compact than decimal notation in certain situations.