Visual Basic® 2012 How to Program, Sixth Edition

C. Number Systems

Objectives

In this appendix you’ll learn:

• Basic number-systems concepts, such as base, positional value and symbol value.

• How to work with numbers represented in the binary, octal and hexadecimal number systems.

• To abbreviate binary numbers as octal or hexadecimal numbers.

• To convert octal and hexadecimal numbers to binary.

• To convert between decimal values and their binary, octal and hexadecimal equivalents.

• To understand binary arithmetic and how negative binary numbers are represented using two’s-complement notation.

Outline

C.1 Introduction

C.2 Abbreviating Binary Numbers as Octal and Hexadecimal Numbers

C.3 Converting Octal and Hexadecimal Numbers to Binary Numbers

C.4 Converting from Binary, Octal or Hexadecimal ...