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Lesson 4 of 14 · about 10 min

Hexadecimal and byte sizes

Long rows of 0s and 1s are hard to read, so programmers write each group of 4 bits as one hexadecimal digit (0–9, then A–F). And bytes add up into KB, MB and GB.

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  • Hexadecimal
  • KB, MB, GB

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