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The preferred notation is 0xF4 and 0xAC being careful to use capital letters for the hex digits.
0xF4 = 11110100 That is to say F translates to 1111 and 4 translates to 0100.
0xAC = 10101100 Likewise.
Learn this stuff perfectly because in the computer business, everybody you talk to from now on will assume you know it.