From: Ahmed Mamoor Amimi (mamoor@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Apr 04 2002 - 12:32:21 GMT-3
I think that Parry have told is much easier solution.
-Mamoor
----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher M. Heffner <cheffner@certified-labs.net>
To: Chua, Parry <Parry.Chua@compaq.com>; Keith E Decker
<st5ba@Bayou.UH.EDU>; <Giveortake@aol.com>
Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:59 AM
Subject: RE: hex conversion
> That just hurts to even look at ...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Chua, Parry
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:04 PM
> To: Keith E Decker; Giveortake@aol.com
> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: hex conversion
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> If you need to use hand written coversion, this is the faster way:
>
> 1. covnert to oct, decimal/8, eg dec:1234 = 0ct 2322
> 2. Break the result of each oct digit into 3 bit binary ,2322 = 010 011
010 010
> 3. Group from right to left into 4 bit binary and write in hex
> 0100 1101 0010 = hex 4D2
>
> Parry Chua
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith E Decker [mailto:st5ba@Bayou.UH.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:39 AM
> To: Giveortake@aol.com
> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: hex conversion
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> 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
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> or
>
> 5000 + 100 + 90 + 5
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> HEX is base 16, so you could have something like this:
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> 0x7CA8
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> 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
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> 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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