Xiaomanyc, a language enthusiast based in New York, decided to try something new during a recent video session. He launched ChatGPT and started a casual conversation in English, Chinese, Spanish and French. The AI responded quickly, offering to help with phrases and suggestions. Then came the unexpected, which turned a language lesson into something much more fun.
It all started when Xiaomanyc said he wanted to learn a new language and started speaking a series of numbers and letters out loud. These numbers are in pairs and represent hexadecimal, a counting system that uses base 16 instead of base 10 like we do every day. Computers read information in binary, which is a sequence of 0s and 1s; but hexadecimal allows programmers to read and write binary data in a more compact form.
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Hex is essentially a base-16 numbering system used in computing to represent binary data more concisely. It uses 16 symbols: 0–9 for 0–9 and A–F for 10–15. Computers are binary (0s and 1s), but long strings of binary are hard to read for humans. Hex groups every 4 binary bits into a single hex digit, making it much easier to read memory addresses, color codes, machine instructions and other low level data. Simply put, hex is a human friendly shorthand for the raw binary language that computers speak.
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