Linux provides commands for converting numbers from one base to another. Learn how to uses these commands and how to make the process easier with scripts and aliases. You might not be challenged very ...

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 ...

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, ...

Log out of Google and search for [binary], [octal] and [hexadecimal] and you will see a little geeky easter egg. The easter egg shows the value of the results in that number systems. For example, here ...