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Negima · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject: Why does ASM use hexadecimal?

Wouldn't it just be a hell lot easier for people to use decimal?

Aikos · Cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Nov 2007 Posts: 47

Cant you use 1249875d for decimals? (Correct me if I am wrong since I havent touched MASM for a while)

sponge · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject:

What kind of dumb question is this... Rolling Eyes

Do you know nothing of computers?

dnsi0 · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject:

Computer is programed in 4 byte. there is absolutely no way for the computer to go into decimal because you need 16 different combinations to fill in the 4 byte allocation. If the computer were doing a xor calculation and it ends up as 1111 which is F and has no value to represent it it would crash your computer. So there. Thats why computer = Hexdecimal. Humans= Decimal. Leet Hackers = Hexdecimal and Decimal

Flyte · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:05 pm Post subject:

Well, I could name a few reasons why, but here are the basics:

- You can store higher numbers in less space.
- More address space. (Because of above.)
- Binary is base 2, so the base of the number has to be (2^x). Since octal is small, the next step up would be hexadecimal.

dnsi0 · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject:

Flyte · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject:

Jani · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:05 pm Post subject:

dnsi0 · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 12:33 pm Post subject:

Yes but the binary can be converted perfectly into 16 digits.
Flyte: You would use the 22 a decimal the same way as the hexdecimal

Hex means 6 so its 10 + 6 = 16 digits.

22 a decimal is 22 +10 = 32 digits.