Absolutely. What Franky says is spot on. I thought I might add my two cents to maybe clarify.
Here is the SHA256 hash of your post:
Code:
101011100010011011011110000101000111101100001111110000110000111011000100100110000001010110110110011000011111111001011111011110111001111010001111010110010010110000100111011000110111010010001101011100001110000111001010111111110100011101101011111100010011100
Converted to hex format is it:
Code:
57136f0a3d87e187624c0adb30ff2fbdcf47ac9613b1ba46b870e57fa3b5f89c
64 characters right? But if you view it like this:
Code:
57 13 6f 0a 3d 87 e1 87 62 4c 0a db 30 ff 2f bd cf 47 ac 96 13 b1 ba 46 b8 70 e5 7f a3 b5 f8 9c
32 separate hexadecimal numbers (or 32 bytes) each one representing 8 of the bits in the hash.
