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Newnes Circuit Calculations Pocket Book
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Newnes Circuit Calculations Pocket Book

by Thomas J. Davies
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
12h 56m
English
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Denary, binary and logic 331
(d) Base conversion of values less than unity
To convert fractions from base 10 to another base, the procedure is
as follows. Multiply by the new base and record a carry in the
integer position. The integer carries are taken in the forward order
to give the new base number.
Example 4 Convert 0.125
1()
to base 6.
0.125 x 6 = 0.75 = 0.75 carry 0
0,75
x
6 = 4.5 = 0.5 carry 4
0.5 x 6 = 3.0 = 0 carry 3
0.125
1()
= 0.043
6
Example 5 Convert 0.0625
1()
to base 4.
0.0625 x 4 = 0.25 = 0.25 carry 0 I
0.0625
io
= 0.01
4
Example 6 Convert the answers to Examples 4 and 5 to base 10
using the method shown in Example 1.
(i) 6"
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