The X 86 Microprocessors: Architecture, Programming and Interfacing (8086 to Pentium) 2nd Edition by Pearson

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THE

x86 MICROPROCESSORS

687 and 234 and so on. A number in hex form is suffixed with the letter H,

for example, 56H, 8FH, 0AH and so on.

ii) The numbers from 0 to 9 are the same in the decimal and the hexadecimal

system. So, in the forthcoming chapters, you will see that no ‘H’ is added

when writing numbers from 0 to 9, though there is nothing wrong in writing

7H, 8H, 01H and so on.

0.6 | Number Format Conversions

0.6.1 | Conversion from Decimal to Binary

The method is to divide the decimal number by 2 until the quotient is 0. See the tech-

nique illustrated below.

Example 0.3

Find the binary value of 13.

Solution

Divide 13 by 2 repeatedl