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Shortcut Method - Binary To Octal: Example

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Shortcut Method - Binary To Octal: Example

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Shortcut method - Binary to Octal

Steps

 Step 1 − Divide the binary digits into groups of three (starting from the right).
 Step 2 − Convert each group of three binary digits to one octal digit.

Example

Binary Number − 101012

Calculating Octal Equivalent −

Step Binary Number Octal Number

Step 1 101012 010 101

Step 2 101012 2 8 58

Step 3 101012 258

Binary Number − 101012 = Octal Number − 258

Shortcut method - Octal to Binary


Steps

 Step 1 − Convert each octal digit to a 3 digit binary number (the octal digits may be
treated as decimal for this conversion).
 Step 2 − Combine all the resulting binary groups (of 3 digits each) into a single binary
number.

Example

Octal Number − 258

Calculating Binary Equivalent −

Step Octal Number Binary Number

Step 1 258 210 510

Step 2 258 0102 1012

Step 3 258 0101012

Octal Number − 258 = Binary Number − 101012


Shortcut method - Binary to Hexadecimal
Steps

 Step 1 − Divide the binary digits into groups of four (starting from the right).
 Step 2 − Convert each group of four binary digits to one hexadecimal symbol.

Example

Binary Number − 101012

Calculating hexadecimal Equivalent −

Step Binary Number Hexadecimal Number

Step 1 101012 0001 0101

Step 2 101012 110 510

Step 3 101012 1516

Binary Number − 101012 = Hexadecimal Number − 1516

Shortcut method - Hexadecimal to Binary


Steps

 Step 1 − Convert each hexadecimal digit to a 4 digit binary number (the hexadecimal
digits may be treated as decimal for this conversion).
 Step 2 − Combine all the resulting binary groups (of 4 digits each) into a single binary
number.

Example

Hexadecimal Number − 1516

Calculating Binary Equivalent −

Step Hexadecimal Number Binary Number

Step 1 1516 110 510

Step 2 1516 00012 01012

Step 3 1516 000101012

Hexadecimal Number − 15 = Binary Number − 10101


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In the coding, when numbers, letters or words are represented by a specific group of
symbols, it is said that the number, letter or word is being encoded. The group of
symbols is called as a code. The digital data is represented, stored and transmitted as
group of binary bits. This group is also called as binary code. The binary code is
represented by the number as well as alphanumeric letter.

Advantages of Binary Code


Following is the list of advantages that binary code offers.
 Binary codes are suitable for the computer applications.
 Binary codes are suitable for the digital communications.
 Binary codes make the analysis and designing of digital circuits if we use the
binary codes.
 Since only 0 & 1 are being used, implementation becomes easy.

Classification of binary codes


The codes are broadly categorized into following four categories.

 Weighted Codes
 Non-Weighted Codes
 Binary Coded Decimal Code
 Alphanumeric Codes
 Error Detecting Codes
 Error Correcting Codes

Weighted Codes
Weighted binary codes are those binary codes which obey the positional weight
principle. Each position of the number represents a specific weight. Several systems of
the codes are used to express the decimal digits 0 through 9. In these codes each
decimal digit is represented by a group of four bits.

Non-Weighted Codes
In this type of binary codes, the positional weights are not assigned. The examples of
non-weighted codes are Excess-3 code and Gray code.
Excess-3 code
The Excess-3 code is also called as XS-3 code. It is non-weighted code used to
express decimal numbers. The Excess-3 code words are derived from the 8421 BCD
code words adding (0011)2 or (3)10 to each code word in 8421. The excess-3 codes
are obtained as follows −

Example

Gray Code
It is the non-weighted code and it is not arithmetic codes. That means there are no
specific weights assigned to the bit position. It has a very special feature that, only one
bit will change each time the decimal number is incremented as shown in fig. As only
one bit changes at a time, the gray code is called as a unit distance code. The gray
code is a cyclic code. Gray code cannot be used for arithmetic operation.
Application of Gray code
 Gray code is popularly used in the shaft position encoders.
 A shaft position encoder produces a code word which represents the angular
position of the shaft.

Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) code


In this code each decimal digit is represented by a 4-bit binary number. BCD is a way to
express each of the decimal digits with a binary code. In the BCD, with four bits we can
represent sixteen numbers (0000 to 1111). But in BCD code only first ten of these are
used (0000 to 1001). The remaining six code combinations i.e. 1010 to 1111 are invalid
in BCD.

Advantages of BCD Codes

 It is very similar to decimal system.


 We need to remember binary equivalent of decimal numbers 0 to 9 only.

Disadvantages of BCD Codes


 The addition and subtraction of BCD have different rules.
 The BCD arithmetic is little more complicated.
 BCD needs more number of bits than binary to represent the decimal number.
So BCD is less efficient than binary.
Alphanumeric codes
A binary digit or bit can represent only two symbols as it has only two states '0' or '1'.
But this is not enough for communication between two computers because there we
need many more symbols for communication. These symbols are required to represent
26 alphabets with capital and small letters, numbers from 0 to 9, punctuation marks and
other symbols.
The alphanumeric codes are the codes t

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