We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you don't already know how computers work, it may seem like an unapproachable subject. It's the kind of high-level science and math that ...

‘A’ is represented by the decimal number 65 (binary 1000001, hex 41), ‘B’ by 66 (binary 1000010, hex 42) and so on up to ‘Z’, which is represented by the decimal number 90 (binary 1011010, hex 5A).

Optimizations in programming have mostly been associated with more efficient data structures or algorithms. Any optimization that uses hardware resources explicitly is generally considered premature, ...