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The hexidecimal (base 16) system is similar, except that each digit represents a power of 16 in that place.

Because a digit can have values greater than 9, there are additional digit values allowed in hex: A(10), B(11), C(12), D(13), E(14) and F(15).

To convert a decimal number to hex, you remove multiples of those powers of 16 as shown below.

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