0xDEADBEEF 0xBEEF. Saw these before? These are hexadecimal numbers. But what exactly is Hex and why is it so common when reverse engineering?

Touching down on Bases

Every number that you see can be represented by a power of the bases of its numerical system. Decimal numbers have a range of 0-9 and can be represented by power of it’s base i.e. 10.

1337 can be represented as:

1 * 10^3

3 * 10^2

3 * 10^1

7 * 10^0