4.4. Radix Conversion
IF OUR ANCESTORS had invented arithmetic by counting with their two fists or their eight fingers, instead of their ten “digits,” we would never have to worry about writing binary-decimal conversion routines. (And we would perhaps never have learned as much about number systems.) In this section, we shall discuss the conversion of numbers from positional notation with one radix into positional notation with another radix; this process is, of course, most important on binary computers when converting decimal input data into binary form, and converting binary answers into decimal form.
A. The four basic methods. Binary-decimal conversion is one of the most machine-dependent operations of all, since computer designers keep ...
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