The Carbohydrate Fermentation test uses Phenol Red Broth to test for the fermentation of different sugars. It is one of the fermentation tests, others include the Methyl Red test and the Voges-Proskauer test.
The main reason why we use hexadecimal numbers is because it is much easier to express binary number representations in hex than it is in any other base number system. Computers do not actually work in hex (donât laugh, beginning students do ask that question). Lets look at an example, using a byte.
Hexadecimal notation (base sixteen) is used throughout the Web and computer systems to indicate values. One good example is the notation for color in HTML pages. Reading and using hexadecimal takes some practice, but the basic concept is no more difficult to understand than the ordinary decimal (base ten) system you've been using all your life.