Number Bases in computing
Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 22:46:58
Category: / Science & Technology / Computers and Cybernetics
Length: 8 pages (2265 words)
Category: / Science & Technology / Computers and Cybernetics
Length: 8 pages (2265 words)
Assignment on Number Bases
Number bases
Every number base is made up of a certain amount of digits; each digit is called a BIT, taken from the words BI-nary digi-T. Binary digits are either 0 or 1. Binary numbers are numbers just like decimal numbers, but instead of been in base ten, they are in base two. The base tells you how may digits be able to be used. The most popular base we use today is …
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…Then calculate each group: 4 5 7 2 = 4572
It is very similar when you are trying to calculate fron Octal to Binay. You give each number in the Octal range a new number with three digits eg 010 or 001. The number '2754' in the Octal notation would like this: <Tab/><Tab/>2<Tab/>7<Tab/>5<Tab/>4
||010 ||<Tab/>111 ||101 ||100||=2754
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