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Meaning of hexadecimally in English:

hexadecimally

adverb

Computing

See hexadecimal

‘The yellow color is expressed hexadecimally as 0xff, 0xff and 0x7f.’
  • ‘The number is displayed hexadecimally after the main program number.’
  • ‘In this case, the initial part of the address is trimmed off and is printed hexadecimally, e.g., 0x80004000 prints as 4000.’
  • ‘All characters that occur in these rules as control characters (&, +, =, and %) are also transcribed hexadecimally in the same way as high value ASCII characters.’
  • ‘Also, remember that any special characters present in this url which might not normally be allowed (like spaces, slashes, and tildes) are hexadecimally encoded.’