Decimal & Octal Numbering System The Octal Numbering system is another number systems which is used in the digial world. In the electronics based systems the processors and the devices prefer Binary format. The decimal system is the standard numbering format which is understandable by all humans but the binary number is difficult for humans to remember or read. Hence Octal and hexadecimal systems came into existence . These are used in processors/machines. It is because, a number in … [Read more...]
Octal Numbering System,Conversion of it to Binary
Octal Numbering System The numbering system that consists of ‘8’ digits of numbers in it can be known as Octal Numbering System. This system is almost the same as that of the Hexadecimal system. In this, each number is encoded with three bits grouped. In similar to another system the coding is based on positions. The position allotment starts from the LSB. The weight of each position is the power value of 8. The numbers present in this system are 0, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. During the earlier stages … [Read more...]