Machine language is binary. This means that machine language has a binary value, or two values, a combination that represents data. These two statuses are "active" which is represented by 1 and "inactive", represented by "0" . Therefore each number (value) is represented by 0 and 1 in this number system.
| Hexadecimal | Binary |
|---|---|
| 0 | 0000 |
| 1 | 0001 |
| 2 | 0010 |
| 3 | 0011 |
| 4 | 0100 |
| 5 | 0101 |
| 6 | 0110 |
| 7 | 0111 |
| 8 | 1000 |
| 9 | 1001 |
| A | 1010 |
| B | 1011 |
| C | 1100 |
| D | 1101 |
| E | 1110 |
| F | 1111 |