Learn about digital data and how computers understand it, including binary, denary, hexadecimal numbers, units of data, character sets and logic gates.

Create a table with headings Binary and Hex, or use an existing one. Under the hex heading type =BIN2HEX (A2,5). A2 is the Binary number you want to convert.

You will see Hex (Hexadecimal), Dec (Decimal), Oct (Octal) and Bin (Binary) radio buttons. These are used for converting numbers between these numbering systems.

Binary and hexadecimal numbers systems underpin the way modern computer systems work. Low-level interactions with hexadecimal (hex) and binary are uncommon in the world of Java programming, but ...

Hexty, an iOS (iPad and iPhone) app provides a simple user interface to understanding hexadecimal to binary number conversion by representing the bits as check buttons. It is useful for programming ...

Warnings Excel will only produce binary numbers with up to 10 bits. This means that it can only convert decimal numbers greater than -513 and less than 512.

When decimal numbers are within the range of 0 to 9, their binary and BCD representations are identical, requiring only four bits (0000 to 1001).

Linux provides commands for converting numbers from one base to another. Learn how to uses these commands and how to make the process easier with scripts and aliases.