What do these numbers in a 'hexdump' of a file mean?

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                          I created a simple file, *1.txt*:

    echo "hello" >> 1.txt

Then I dumped it: 

    hexdump 1.txt

And the terminal output:

    0000000 68 65 6c 6c 6f 0a                              
    0000006

What do 0000000 and  0000006 mean?

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Sep 30, 2015, 10:52 AM
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What do these numbers in a 'hexdump' of a file mean?

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