This first hexadecimal system, proposed in the 19th century, has thus far not achieved widespread usage.
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Traditional Chinese weighing units was a hexadecimal system.
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Obviously the binary system isn't very practical for human use, but what about the hexadecimal system?
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The octal and hexadecimal systems are often used in computing because of their ease as shorthand for binary.
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A standard hexadecimal system would not work in this case because, for one thing, years previously entered in a database would have the wrong values.
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It has the advantage of not requiring any extra symbols as digits ( the hexadecimal system is base-16 and therefore needs six additional symbols beyond 0 9 ).
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In Jorge Luis Borges'short story Tl�n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Herbert Ashe, a melancholy English engineer, working for the Southern Argentine Railway company, is converting a duodecimal number system to a hexadecimal system.