Do you need help knowing how to do it? The important thing to remember is that
each place of the binary number gets multiplied by a power of two. So say you
have a 6-digit number: 110101 You have six places. Start at the right and
work to your left.

Place 1: Multiply times 1 (2^0)
Place 2: Multiply times 2 (2^1)
Place 3: Multiply times 4 (2^2)
Place 4: Multiply times 8 (2^3)
Place 5: Multiply times 16 (2^4)
Place 6: Multiply times 32 (2^5)

Then add everything together. I get 53.

If anyone sees anything that I stated incorrectly, please correct me. I'm often
not great at explaining things like this in an email. If you are working with
hexadecimal, the concept is the same, except that you are using powers of 16.
16^0=1, 16^1=16, 16^2=256, etc.

Merry





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From: Arthur Rosene
To: aplus@egroups.com
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 10:42 AM
Subject: [aplus] how to convert 8-bit binary #'s into decimal ???


how to convert 8-bit binary #'s into decimal ???

how important is this on the test ?




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