Chapter 2: Alien Bases

Getting Your Arms Around Binary And Hexadecimal

At the assembler level(?) the computer does not understand numbers in base 10.
Computer work on base 2 *and* base 16 numbers. Everything in assembly language
depends on a thorough understanding of these bases.

an explanation of "columnar" system of numerical notation -

in any given number system the base itself cannot be expressed as a single digit.

DEC used an octal number system.

base 16 number system == "hexadecimal".

11h = "one one hex"

Memorise hex addition (!!)

Irrespective of base, the maximum you can carry out of a single column addition
(_of two numbers?) is 1.

borrows across multiple columns == ???

Hexadecimal is the lingua franca of assemblers. The more your gut level
understanding of hex, the better you understand assembler, as also the
understanding of internal structure of the machine.