COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

DATA REPRESENTATION AND NUMBER SYSTEMS

BINARY OCTAL DECIMAL AND HEXADECIMAL NUMBER SYSTEMS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The highest digit in Octal is ____
A
7
B
6
C
5
D
4
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: The largest digit in the octal number system is 7. The octal system is a base eight number system, which means it uses eight digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.

Detailed explanation-2: -The octal number system uses digits from 0 to 7 which can be made from binary numbers by grouping binary digits in its 3-bit representation. Octal numbers use a lesser number of digits as compared to decimal and hexadecimal which makes it easy to compute in fewer steps.

Detailed explanation-3: -Octal Number System: The octal number system has only eight (8) digits from 0 to 7. Every number (value) represents with 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 in this number system. The base of the octal number system is 8 because it has only 8 digits.

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