| ??? 04/16/09 08:14 Modified: 04/16/09 08:34 Read: times |
#164654 - Number Base (Radix) and Place Value Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Christoph Franck said:
"Converting" a 16-bit value to ASCII is basically just a change of the base of the number - from base-2 (or base-16) to base-10. Technically, the "base" is known as the Radix of the reprentation. The concept of number bases and place value is absolutely fundamental - remember "hundreds, tens, units" from school? see: http://www.8052.com/forum/read/67454 Common radixes (radices?) in digital computing are: Base-2 has a Radix of 2 and is known as Binary; Base-8 has a Radix of 8 and is known as Octal; Base-10 has a Radix of 10 and is known as Decimal (or Denary); Base-16 has a Radix of 16 and is known as Hexadecimal (or "Hex" for short); |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| 16bit number to ascii | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Base conversion. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Number Base (Radix) and Place Value | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ASCII | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Right ... I forgot about that part. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What I'd wonder ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Is it relevant? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| That's somewhat of a description | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| D'oh! You've given it away | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Well ... not quite ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| That was step 1. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| not hard when talking in human language or C... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Irrelevant | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Op code? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Ah, yes ... the Fairchild FND-70 driver ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| nybble-to-7-segment encoder | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| if... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| 30 years ago | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| That's a BIG if | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Serial output | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| That might work in SOME cases ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| But I'm not that fast | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
What about infrequently recurring events? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| FND-70 driver? Luxury! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Decoding DTMF | 01/01/70 00:00 |