152.3.2.12 — that’s fairly easy to read and remember. IPv6 addresses, on the other hand, use hexadecimal notation. Version 6’s implementers chose this over the easier-to-read decimal ...

1: IPv6 addresses are 128-bit hexadecimal numbers The IPv4 addresses we are all used to seeing are made up of four numerical octets that combine to form a 32-bit address. IPv6 addresses look ...

Binary data is no good for people so an IPv6 address is translated into hexadecimal, split into 8 fields, and colons are placed between these eight fields. It’s a system that only a scientist ...