Difference between binary and hexadecimal

Hexadecimal Numbers	Binary Numbers
Hexadecimal numbers make use of 16 symbols 0 to 9 and additional symbols (A, B, C, D, E, F). Hexadecimal numbers were introduced with the purpose to represent binary numbers in a more human readable form.	Binary numbers make use of only 2 symbols (0, 1) to represent any number and it becomes a tedious job to express large numbers.
The radix or base for hexadecimal number is 16 and each symbol in a hexadecimal number is expressed as power of 16.	The radix for binary numbers is 2 and also termed as base 2 numbers.
It is easy and more human readable to represent number in hexadecimal system.	Large numbers represented in binary system are not in a human readable form.
Example of  Hexadecimal number : FF (Equivalent to Two hundred and fifty five in decimal)	Example of Binary number : 11111111 (Equivalent to Two hundred and fifty five in decimal)
Applications Used for representing addresses of memory locations in microprocessors and assembly language programming.	Applications All the digital circuits use binary numbers at the lowest level of interaction and to perform logical operations.