Conversion of binary to decimal numbers is often needed in firmware. And it’s done easily enough if multiplication and division by ten are acceptable. However, these operations, especially division, ...

In this article, I'm covering something that's a little abstruse: converting numeric bases within shell scripts. There are really four commonly used numeric bases to consider: binary, octal, decimal ...

The conversion of a decimal number to its base 8 equivalent is started by the repeated division method. Divide the base 10 number by 8 and extract the remainders. The first remainder will be the LSD, ...

Some of the greatest electronic calculators of all time, including the venerable HP-16C, included functionality to convert numbers between different bases. 3735928559 might not mean much in base 10, ...

Every now and then you come across something that Excel doesn’t have a function for which requires you to get fancy and figure out some tricky way to get the job done. While coding up a solution in ...

Ok, I have a 6 bit register I want to display on 2 seven seg displays. I've been trying to think of a way to divide it up into two registers, but the lack of variable length loops and division is ...

Binary and hexadecimal numbers systems underpin the way modern computer systems work. Low-level interactions with hexadecimal (hex) and binary are uncommon in the world of Java programming, but ...