Benmonkey7 said:
I don't get it...Does that mean I lose nerd cred?
#FF0000 is a color code in hexadecimal, first two are a value of Red, the next two are green, last two is blue. [RRGGBB]
hexadecimal values:
In decimals, after 9, we start on 10. What it really means we have ONE of tens, but zero of ones.
In hexadecimal, we go up to 15 before starting on a new digit. But we don't have numbers after 9, so instead we use A->F(A=10, F=15)
Therefore, in hexadecimal, it goes:
1, 2, 3, ... , 9, A, B, C, D, E, F
When we start over we get, as we would in decimal, 10. This means we have ONE of sixteens, but zero of ones.
FF means "'F'(=15) of sixteens, 'F' of ones"
15 * 16 = 240
15 * 1 = 15
240 + 15 = 255
after FF you get 100, meaning 256. ("one of 256's, zero of 16's, zero of 1's")
IN DECIMAL the same is:
100 = one of 100's, zero of 10's, zero of 0's.