Number System Conversion The binary number system is the most important one in digital systems as it is very easy to implement in circuitry. The decimal system is important because it is universally used to represent quantities outside a digital system. In addition to binary and decimal, octal and hexadecimal number systems find widespread application in digital systems. These number systems (octal and hexadecimal) provide an efficient means for representing large binary numbers. As we shall see, both these number systems have the advantage that they can be easily converted to and from binary. In a digital system, three or four of these number systems may be in use at the same time, so that an understanding of the system operation requires the ability to convert from one number system to another. This section discusses how to perform these conversions. So, let us discuss them one by one. Decimal to Binary Conversio There are two procedures for converting (integers) from decimal to bina...
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