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Number System in Digital Electronics

This document discusses different number systems used in digital electronics, including decimal, binary, octal, and hexadecimal. The decimal system uses digits 0-9 and has a base of 10. The binary system uses only digits 0 and 1 and has a base of 2. It is used by computers to process information. The octal system uses digits 0-7 and has a base of 8. The hexadecimal system uses digits 0-9 and A-F, has a base of 16, and is commonly used in microprocessor work due to its more compact notation compared to binary. These different number systems are used to represent numeric values in digital circuits and computers.

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Number System in Digital Electronics

This document discusses different number systems used in digital electronics, including decimal, binary, octal, and hexadecimal. The decimal system uses digits 0-9 and has a base of 10. The binary system uses only digits 0 and 1 and has a base of 2. It is used by computers to process information. The octal system uses digits 0-7 and has a base of 8. The hexadecimal system uses digits 0-9 and A-F, has a base of 16, and is commonly used in microprocessor work due to its more compact notation compared to binary. These different number systems are used to represent numeric values in digital circuits and computers.

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Number System in Digital Electronics

circuitglobe.com/number-system-in-digital-electronics.html

September 21,
2016

Definition: In digital electronics, the number system is used for representing the
information. The number system has different bases and the most common of them are
the decimal, binary, octal, and hexadecimal. The base or radix of the number system is
the total number of the digit used in the number system. Suppose if the number system
representing the digit from 0 – 9 then the base of the system is the 10.

Types of Number Systems


Some of the important types of number system are

These number systems are explained below in details.

1. Decimal Number Systems


The number system is having digit 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; this number system is known
as a decimal number system because total ten digits are involved.The base of the
decimal number system is 10.

2. Binary Number Systems


The modern computers do not process decimal number; they work with another number
system known as a binary number system which uses only two digits 0 and1.The base of
binary number system is 2 because it has only two digit 0 and 1.The digital electronic
equipments are works on the binary number system and hence the decimal number
system is converted into binary system.

The table is shown below the decimal, binary, octal, and hexadecimal numbers from 0 to
15 and their equivalent binary number.

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3. Octal Numbers
The base of a number system is equal to the number of digits used, i.e., for decimal
number system the base is ten while for the binary system the base is two. The octal
system has the base of eight as it uses eight digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

All these digits from 0 to 7 have the same physical meaning as by decimal symbols, the
next digit in the octal number is represented by 10, 11, 12, which are equivalent to
decimal digits 8, 9, 10 respectively. In this way, the octal number 20 will represent the
decimal digit and subsequently, 21, 22, 23.. Octal numbers will represent the decimal
number digit 17, 18, 19… etc. and so on.

4. Hexadecimal Numbers
These numbers are used extensively in microprocessor work.The hexadecimal number
system has a base of 16, and hence it consists of the following sixteen number of digits.

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F.

The size of the hexadecimal is much shorter than the binary number which makes them
easy to write and remember. Let 0000 to 000F representing hexadecimal numbers from
zero to fifteen, then 0010, 0011, 0012, …etc. Will represent sixteen, seventeen, eighteen…
etc. till 001F which represent thirty open and so on.

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