Programmer's Guide to Java™ Certification, A: A Comprehensive Primer, Second Edition

G.1. Number Systems

Binary, Octal, and Hexadecimal Number System

Table G.1 lists the integers from 0 to 16, showing their equivalents in the binary (base 2), octal (base 8), and hexadecimal (base 16) number systems. The shaded cells in each column show the digits in each number system.

Table G.1. Number Systems

Decimal (base 10)	Binary (base 2)	Octal (base 8)	Hexadecimal (base 16)
0	0	0	0
1	1	1	1
2	10	2	2
3	11	3	3
4	100	4	4
5	101	5	5
6	110	6	6
7	111	7	7
8	1000	10	8
9	1001	11	9
10	1010	12	a
11	1011	13	b
12	1100	14	c
13	1101	15	d
14	1110	16	e
15	1111	17	f
16	10000	20	10

In addition to the decimal literals, Java also allows integer literals to be specified in octal and hexadecimal number systems, but not in the binary number system. Octal and hexadecimal numbers are specified with 0 and 0x prefix, respectively. The ...