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A quick primer on binary and hexadecimal

Posted on 19 May 202118 May 2021 by randolph

A few years ago, I wrote that a CPU is “a hot mess of on-off switches.” There’s more to it than that when you get into the weeds of caches and cores and logic gates, but at the heart of every single one of the billions of transistors in a modern CPU, electricity either flows
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Randolph West (they/them) is a Senior Technical Writer at Microsoft on the Database Docs team. When not writing about technology, you can see them acting on the stage and screen, or doing voices for independent video games. Available for mentoring, talks on SQL Server and technology in general, you can connect with Randolph on Twitter. Buy their books on Amazon.

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