COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

DATA REPRESENTATION AND NUMBER SYSTEMS

BINARY OCTAL DECIMAL AND HEXADECIMAL NUMBER SYSTEMS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
True or False:1111 in Binary is the same as 10 in Octal?
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is 72. The octal equivalence of 111010 is 72. The octal numeral system, or oct for short, is the base-8 number system, and uses the digits 0 to 7.

Detailed explanation-2: -Conversion from Octal to Binary number system However, there is a simple direct method to convert an octal number to binary number. Since there are only 8 symbols (i.e., 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7) in octal representation system and its base (i.e., 8) is equivalent of 23=8.

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