What is the value of base for decimal,hexadecimal, binary and octal number system?
Answers
Decimal : 10 ( digits 0 to 9)
HexaDecimal :16 ( 0 to 9 and A to F, where a stands for 10 and f for 15)
binary : 2 (digits 0 and 1)
Octal: 8 (digits 0 to 7)
Our decimal system is based on the number of fingers (including thumbs) we have on both of our hands.
Assuming that you are typical, like me, how many fingers to you have?
Your answer to this question should give you the base of our “decimal” system.
Here are other hints
How many years are in a decade?
How many different digits do we use with decimals?
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
“dec” comes to us from “decem”, the Latin word for “ten” and “decimus”, the Latin word for “tenth”.
Final hint, the base number for a number system is the value that you get when you write the number as “10”. In decimal, this value is 10.
The decimal system is based on the value ten.
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What is the base for our hexadecimal system?
In other words, what is the value of the hexadecimal number “10” ?
Let’s see if we can figure this out.
The word “hexadecimal” has two parts, “Hexa” and “decimal”.
How many sides does a “hexagon” have? (yes, six)