Convert hexadecimal to text
48 65 6C 6C 6F in hexadecimal is Hello in text. Each digit is multiplied by its place value — the base raised to the digit's position, counting from zero on the right — and the products are added. The page prints every one of those products rather than only the total. The conversion is exact: bases are positional notation for the same number, so nothing is rounded and the result can be checked digit by digit.
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48 65 6C 6C 6F in hexadecimal
Hello
How it gets there
- Each group is one byte
- 48 → 72 65 → 101 6C → 108 6C → 108 6F → 111
- Bytes become characters
- Decoded as UTF-8, so a multi-byte sequence forms a single character.
hexadecimal to text, at a glance
Two hex digits are one byte, which is why a hex dump is the standard way to look at text a program has mangled. The first 128 code points are ASCII; above that, UTF-8 spends two to four bytes on a character.
| hexadecimal | text |
|---|---|
| 41 | A |
| 5A | Z |
| 61 | a |
| 7A | z |
| 30 | 0 |
| 39 | 9 |
| 20 | space |
| 21 | ! |
Why is the working shown?
Every other converter of this kind prints the answer and stops. A base is a positional system, so the answer is a sum you can check: each digit is multiplied by the base raised to its position, and the results are added. Going the other way is repeated division, reading the remainders upwards. Neither is a black box, and this page refuses to be one.