Binary, denary and hexadecimal, conversions, binary arithmetic and two's complement.
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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