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Question 24

Programmers and web developers often use hexadecimal notation, such as when defining colour codes or referring to memory addresses, instead of writing out long strings of binary.

Identify the main benefit of using hexadecimal notation rather than binary for a human programmer.

It is executed faster by the CPU.

It is less prone to human error when reading and writing.

It reduces the final file size of the program on disk.

It allows the system to perform calculations with greater accuracy.

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