Katrina Fox

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If computers are obsessed with binary numbers, their next love is base-16 numbers. It’s really easy to convert between binary and base-16 hexadecimal numbers, which is why hexadecimal is used to make computer binary a bit more human-friendly; the hexadecimal 4C47 represents the full binary number 0100110001000111 but is much easier to read. You can think of hexadecimal as binary in disguise. It was used in the SQL injection example before, to hide computer code in plain sight.
Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
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