>>>Thank you Hilmar, it helps. (espacially octal stuff)
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>>You are welcome. You don't happen to need the opposite conversion (from decimal to other bases)?
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>Not really, but It would be nice to have it all.
OK, let's see an example in octal.
Convert 1000 (decimal) to octal.
You could find how often you can fit 8^3, 8^2, etc. into the number; but here is the shortcut:
Doing successive divisions:
Result Remainder
1000
125 0
15 5
1 7
0 1
That is, continue dividing until you have a result of 0.
The result in octal is the remainders, read from bottom to top: 1000 (decimal) = 1750 (octal).
With hexadecimal, of course, you have the complication (once again) of converting a remainder between 10 and 15, to the corresponding single digit (A-F).
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