From: Todd Carswell (acarswell@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Apr 04 2002 - 01:52:52 GMT-3
During the exam, you can just bring up the calculator on the PC. That'll
help eliminate any nervous mistakes.
That's what I'm plannin' to do! :-)
Todd Carswell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith E Decker" <st5ba@Bayou.UH.EDU>
To: <Giveortake@AOL.COM>
Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: hex conversion
> Hex conversion...very similar to base 10 number system, only it's powers
> of 16, not powers of 10.
>
> For example... base 10 number system we all know and love:
>
> 5195
>
> This is the same as:
>
> 5*10^3 + 1*10^2 + 9*10^1 + 5*10^0
>
> or
>
> 5000 + 100 + 90 + 5
>
> HEX is base 16, so you could have something like this:
>
> 0x7CA8
>
> This is the same as:
>
> 7*16^3 + C*16^2 + A*16^1 + 8*16^0
>
> or
>
> 7*4096 + 12*256 + 10*16 + 8
>
> 28672 + 3072 + 160 + 8 = 31912
>
> As for translating the letters into numbers, that's pretty easy:
>
> HEX DEC
> === ===
> 0 0
> 1 1
> 2 2
> 3 3
> 4 4
> 5 5
> 6 6
> 7 7
> 8 8
> 9 9
> A 10 <-- Base 10 has no more digits and recycles here
> B 11 Base 16 has six more "digits" and keeps going
> C 12
> D 13
> E 14
> F 15
>
> Keith
>
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 Giveortake@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Any have a GOOD link for Hex conversion? I am looking for a tutorial
not a
> > calculator!! Ok a calculator would help me check my work too!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David
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