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Note i) In most computers, the default number system for writing numbers is decimal. When
we mean decimal numbers, we simply write it as it is – like 35, 687 and 234 and so
on. A number in hex form is suffi xed with the letter H, for example, 56H, 8FH, 0AH
and so on.
ii) e 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
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