Arithmetic Grade Five

Lesson One hundred and Fifty-seven: Pyramid Challenge


Before you get to the Pyramid Challenge game you need to know a thing or two about hexadecimal numbers. Usually people use the number system known as the decimal system which you are quite used to working with. But there are other number systems, such as the hexadecimal system (not to mention the binary and octal number systems).

The hexademical system uses the same numbers as the decimal system plus six letters:


	HEXADECIMAL	DECIMAL
	  0		  0
	  1		  1
	  2		  2
	  3		  3	   
	  4		  4
	  5		  5
	  6		  6
	  7		  7
	  8		  8
	  9		  9
	  A		 10
	  B		 11
	  C		 12
	  D		 13
	  E		 14
	  F		 15	

Computer programmers use hexadecimal numbers for many different things and so it's not a bad to be at least aware of their existence.


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