Thank you Hilmar, it helps. (espacially octal stuff)

>>Dear all;
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>>Does anyone has an algorithm to convert from base 8/16/2 to base 10?
>>Thanks.
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>Let's see an example in octal:
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>234 (octal)
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>2 should be multiplied by 8^2 (8 square; right now, I don't remember the syntax in Java). 2 should be multiplied by 8, and 4, simply by 1.
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>A shortcut, which sort of bypasses the use of powers, is:
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>(2 * 8 + 3) * 8 + 4
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>IOW: repeatedly multiply by 8, and add the next digit.
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>For hexadecimal, you would have to convert "A" to 10... "F" to 15, first, and then apply the same algorithm (multiplying by 16, of course).
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>HTH,
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>Hilmar.