256 is a number that is after 255 and is below 257. 256 is 28, which is a power of 2. It is equal to 4^^2 in up-arrow notation.
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256 is the hundreds place in hexadecimal, and in Hex code, the numbers go upto 255, including 0 makes 256 stages of colour, repeating for all 3 light colours and we get that there is 256^3, 16777216 different colours in Hex code, why we choose 256 comes from the fact that Hex in hexadecimal means 16, not 6 and 256 is 16^2, the first 3 digit number in hex
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256's numeral means
- N/A in binary
- 592 in hexadecimal
- 132358 in base 256256's value means
- 100000000 in binary
- 100 in hexadecimal
- 10 in base 256
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