Binary To Denary and Denary To Binary:

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4 bit [nibble] means only 8 4 2 1

8 bit [byte] means 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1

Uses Of Binary -

  1. Computers can only process digital data [Aka Binary] - Because computers consist of transistors that can only process on or off
  2. Base of all computing systems
  3. Allows devices to store, access and manipulate data directed to and from the CPU or memory

Hexadecimal -

Conversions -

Denary to Hexadecimal -

  1. Convert number to binary first
  2. Split 8 bit binary to two 4 bit binary numbers
  3. Find the values for both 4 bit binary numbers
  4. Convert to hexadecimal

Hexadecimal to Denary -

  1. Convert hexadecimal into 4 bit binary numbers
  2. add the 4 bit binary numbers to make an x bit binary number