Using A Hex Editor On Linux
Hex editors get their name because the contents of the file are primarily shown as hexadecimal (hex) numbers. We normally count in base 10, meaning each digit (or column) represents a factor of 10. So 123 is 3 units, 2 lots of 10 (i.e. 20) and 1 lot of 100 (i.e. 100). That is great and perfect for how we learn math as children since we have ten fingers! One byte of computer memory or of disk storage can represent a number up to the value of 255....