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Edexcel IGCSE·Computer Science·IGCSE Computer Science

Number Systems

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Binary, denary and hexadecimal, conversions, and binary arithmetic.

Why binary?

Computers use binary (base 2) because circuits have two states (on/off, 1/0). Denary is base 10; hexadecimal (base 16) is a shorthand for binary (one hex digit = 4 bits).

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