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Hexing Hexes
There is a link between the words below and their associated numbers. Can you figure out what it is?
A = 10
AD = 173
ADD = 2781
ACE = 2776
ACED = 44269
FACE = 64206
FACED = 1027309
A = 10
AD = 173
ADD = 2781
ACE = 2776
ACED = 44269
FACE = 64206
FACED = 1027309
Hint
The title itself is a clue.Answer
The words are actually numbers in hexadecimal form (base 16), while the numbers are their decimal (base 10) equivalent.Counting in hexadecimal (with corresponding decimal values in brackets) is:
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A (10), B (11), C (12), D (13), E (14), F (15),
10 (16), 11 (17), 12 (18), 13 (19), 14 (20), 15 (21), 16 (22), 17 (23), 18 (24), 19 (25), 1A (26), 1B (27), 1C (28), 1D (29), 1E (30), 1F (31),
20 (32), 21 (33) ...
Note that for decimal, the place values are 1, 10, 100, 1000, etc. For hexadecimal, the place values are 1, 16 (10), 256 (100), 4096 (1000).
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