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Number System in Computers

The document discusses different number systems used in computers including decimal, binary, octal, and hexadecimal number systems. Decimal uses base 10, binary uses base 2, octal uses base 8, and hexadecimal uses base 16. Each system represents numbers in a positional notation where the value of each digit depends on its position.

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Number System in Computers

The document discusses different number systems used in computers including decimal, binary, octal, and hexadecimal number systems. Decimal uses base 10, binary uses base 2, octal uses base 8, and hexadecimal uses base 16. Each system represents numbers in a positional notation where the value of each digit depends on its position.

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NUMBER SYSTEM IN

COMPUTERS

Number systems are the technique to


represent numbers in the computer system
architecture, every value that you are saving
or getting into/from computer memory has a
defined number system.
TYPES OF NUMBER SYSTEMS IN COMPUTERS
DECIMAL NUMBER SYSTEM
Decimal number system is a base 10 number system having 10 digits from 0 to 9.
This means that any numerical quantity can be represented using these 10 digits.
Decimal number system is also a positional value system. This means that the
value of digits will depend on its position. Let us take an example to understand
this.
Say we have three numbers – 734, 971 and 207. The value of 7 in all three
numbers is different−
• In 734, value of 7 is 7 hundreds or 700 or 7 × 100 or 7 × 102
• In 971, value of 7 is 7 tens or 70 or 7 × 10 or 7 × 101
• In 207, value 0f 7 is 7 units or 7 or 7 × 1 or 7 × 100
• The weightage of each position can be represented as follows −
BINARY NUMBER SYSTEM
When we type some letters or words, the computer translates
them in numbers as computers can understand only numbers. A
computer can understand the positional number system where
there are only a few symbols called digits and these symbols
represent different values depending on the position they
occupy in the number.
• The value of each digit in a number can be determined using −
• The digit
• The position of the digit in the number
• The base of the number system (where the base is defined as
the total number of digits available in the number system)
OCTAL NUMBER SYSTEM
Octal Number System has a base of eight and uses the
number from 0 to 7. The octal numbers, in the number
system, are usually represented by binary numbers when they
are grouped in pairs of three. For example, 128 is expressed as
0010102, where 1 is equivalent to 001 and 2 is equivalent to
010.
HEXADECIMAL NUMBER SYSTEM
Hexadecimal Number System is one the type
of Number Representation techniques, in which there value of
base is 16. That means there are only 16 symbols or possible
digit values, there are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F.
Where A, B, C, D, E and F are single bit representations of
decimal value 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 respectively. It requires
only 4 bits to represent value of any digit. Hexadecimal
numbers are indicated by the addition of either an 0x prefix or
an h suffix.
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