June 2017
Beginner
1296 pages
69h 23m
English
The main use for octal and hexadecimal numbers in computing is for abbreviating lengthy binary representations. Figure J.7 highlights the fact that lengthy binary numbers can be expressed concisely in number systems with higher bases than the binary number system.
A particularly important relationship that both the octal number system and the hexadecimal number system have to the binary system is that the bases of octal and hexadecimal (8 and 16 respectively) are powers of the base of the binary number system (base 2). Consider the following 12-digit binary number and its octal and hexadecimal equivalents. See if you can determine how this relationship makes it convenient to abbreviate ...