Question

3. Answer the following questions.
(a) What do you understand by base of a number system?
(b) What is binary number system ?
(c) What do you understand by octal number system?
(d) What is hexadecimal number system?​

Answer 1

Answer:

(a) In a positional numeral system, the radix or base is the number of unique digits, including the digit zero, used to represent numbers. for example, for the decimal/denary system (the most common system in use today) the radix (base number) is ten, because it used the ten digits from 0 to 9.

(b) A binary system is a number expressed in the base-2 numeral system or binary numeral system, a method of mathematical expression which uses only two symbols: typically "0" and "1", the base-2 numeral system is a positional notation with a radix of 2. each digit is reffered to as a bit, or binary digit