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| | Hexadecimal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Hexadecimal is primarily used in computing as the most common form of expressing a guaranteeably human-readable string representation of a byte. |
 | | For example, in the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main%20Page, the (hexadecimal) ASCII character code for a space (" ") is 20. |
 | | This is the most common format for hexadecimal on IBM mainframes (zSeries) and minicomputers (iSeries) running the traditional OS's (zOS, zVSE, zVM, TPF, OS/400), and is used in Assembler, PL/1, Cobol, JCL, scripts, commands and other places. |
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