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MAN PAGES // WEEK 03

BASES, HEX, AND WHERE WE SEE IT · Ch 1 Sec 4-6 · six terms · write your own usage line under each
$ man BASE
how many digits a counting system uses before it carries

$ man DECIMAL
base 10, the everyday system

$ man HEXADECIMAL
base 16: digits 0-9 then a-f

$ man CONVERSION
rewriting the same number in a different base

$ man HEX_COLOR
a six-digit hex number describing red, green, and blue

$ man MAC_ADDRESS
a hardware ID written in hex pairs