basic question about binary, oct and Hex

[srini gams]

Could you help me out in re-collecting basic things about converting a decimal to octal and hexadecimal formats. How to represent negative integers into binary format.

Thanks in advance,
Srini

[William Brogden]

The java.lang.Integer and .Long wrapper classes have methods like
String Integer.toHexString( x );
toBinaryString( x ) and toOctalString( x )
Bill

[Jane Griscti]

Hi Srini,
Here's a link to some notes I made on working with different number systems
Hope they help.
(Sorry, corrected the link)
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Jane
[This message has been edited by Jane Griscti (edited October 07, 2000).]

[Jeff Holmes]

I noticed jane's link didn't work so I give you just the quick basics:
octal is a base eight conversion and hex is base 16 and binary is base 2.
so for binary
32 16 8 4 2 1
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0 1 1 0 1 0 is 36 in decimal.
so for octal
8^6 8^5 8^4 8^3 8^2 8 1
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Octal of 3 1
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24 + 1 = 25 Decimal
so for hex
16^4 16^3 16^2 16 1
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Hex of F F
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(16*15) + (1*15) = 255 decimal
Java uses two's compliment to produce a negative number, this is done by taking the positive representation of the value in binary and then bitwise them(Reverse them) and then add one to the value. This will give you the negative value.
Hope this helps out....

[Vijay Naidu]

Hi Srini,
here's a good link I found on Jane's link
http://www.rz.uni-hohenheim.de/rz/sys/basics/csc102/ch3.html#con_hex_oct_bin
Hope this helps you.
Thanks.
Vijay