hexadecimal
adjective
hexa·dec·i·mal
ˌhek-sə-ˈde-sə-məl 
-ˈdes-məl
: of, relating to, or being a number system with a base of 16
hexadecimal
noun
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In a proof-of-work system, miners update the blockchain and verify transactions as legitimate by solving an arbitrary numerical puzzle for a hexadecimal solution, known as a hash.
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Wilson Chapman, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2021
Answer Man is innumerate in all major numbering systems — Roman, Arabic, hexadecimal — and not so hot in Latin, either.
—Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2021
The screenshots are other blocks of hexadecimal numbers.
—Casey Tolan, Curt Devine and Drew Griffin, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
First, verify a series of transactions on the blockchain and, second, correctly guess a random 64-digit hexadecimal number, called a hash.
—Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 16 May 2021
Then, a few months later, new Bergsonist EPs began appearing on Bandcamp nearly every Friday, each with its own six-character alphanumeric title, the hexadecimal color code of each recording’s thumbnail cover image.
—Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
Rather than send voters home with a binder full of hexadecimal gibberish, the computer would print the ciphertext as something much smaller: a hash code, much like how a URL is shortened into a Bit.ly.
—Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 15 Sep. 2020
These are 128-bit numbers, expressed in hexadecimal strings—for instance, 2001:0db8:582:ae33::29.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2020
Currently, a block's hash needs at least around 18 zeros (in its hexadecimal representation) to be accepted by the network—which translates to around 1022 trials to find a valid block.
—Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 9 July 2019
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Wilson Chapman, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2021
Answer Man is innumerate in all major numbering systems — Roman, Arabic, hexadecimal — and not so hot in Latin, either.
—Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2021
The screenshots are other blocks of hexadecimal numbers.
—Casey Tolan, Curt Devine and Drew Griffin, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
First, verify a series of transactions on the blockchain and, second, correctly guess a random 64-digit hexadecimal number, called a hash.
—Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 16 May 2021
Then, a few months later, new Bergsonist EPs began appearing on Bandcamp nearly every Friday, each with its own six-character alphanumeric title, the hexadecimal color code of each recording’s thumbnail cover image.
—Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
Rather than send voters home with a binder full of hexadecimal gibberish, the computer would print the ciphertext as something much smaller: a hash code, much like how a URL is shortened into a Bit.ly.
—Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 15 Sep. 2020
These are 128-bit numbers, expressed in hexadecimal strings—for instance, 2001:0db8:582:ae33::29.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2020
Currently, a block's hash needs at least around 18 zeros (in its hexadecimal representation) to be accepted by the network—which translates to around 1022 trials to find a valid block.
—Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 9 July 2019
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hexadecimal
adjective
hexa·dec·i·mal
ˌhek-sə-ˈdes-(ə-)məl
: of, relating to, or being a number system with a base of 16
hexadecimal numbers
hexadecimal notation
hexadecimal
noun
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