ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses positional number systems using various radices (bases), counting in different radices, and conversion from one radix to a different radix. The number systems are presented for both integer and fraction notation. The different number systems covered are binary (radix 2), octal (radix 8), binary-coded octal, decimal (radix 10), binary-coded decimal, hexadecimal (radix 16), and binary-coded hexadecimal. Also, other nontraditional radices are presented to illustrate that the same rules apply to any radix. Various arithmetic operations are provided to demonstrate the four arithmetic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.