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A computer is an electronic machine that All these digits from 0 to 7 have the same
processes information in other words, an physical meaning as by decimal symbols,
information processor: it takes in raw the next digit in the octal number is
information (or data) at one end, stores it represented by 10, 11, 12 which are
until its ready to work in it, chews and equivalent to decimal digits 8, 9, 10
crunches it for a bit, then spits out the respectively. In this way, the octal number
results at the other end. All these 20 will represent the decimal digit and
processes have a name. Taking in subsequently 21, 22 , 23. Octal numbers
information is called input, and storing will represent the decimal number digit 17,
information is better known as memory (or 18, 19..etc and so on.
storage). Chewing information is also
known as processing, and spitting out Hexadecimal Numbers
results is called output. These numbers are used extensively in
microprocessor work.The hexadecimal
Machine Language number system has a base of 16, and
it is the native language of a computer hence it consists of the following sixteen
system that no other language or number of digits.
programming language can be understood
by a computer machine. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F.