A network technician is configuring a new switch and needs to document the Media Access Control (MAC) address of a connected device. The address is shown as '00-1A-73-F0-55-B4'. This format, which uses both numbers and letters, is a base-16 system. Which notational system is being used to represent this MAC address?
The correct answer is hexadecimal. MAC addresses are represented using the base-16 hexadecimal system, which uses the digits 0-9 and the letters A-F to represent values. This makes it a more human-readable format than binary. The other options are incorrect numerical bases: decimal is base-10, binary is base-2, and octal is base-8.
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