Hex Help
Here is one way to convert a hex number to a binary number.
First you need to know your binary numbers up to 15.
Decimal Binary Hex
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0 0 0
1 1 1
2 10 2
3 11 3
4 100 4
5 101 5
6 110 6
7 111 7
8 1000 8
9 1001 9
10 1010 A
11 1011 B
12 1100 C
13 1101 D
14 1110 E
15 1111 F
A nibble is half of a byte or 4 bits. Every hex character needs to be converted to a nibble.
Hex values 0 through 7 must be padded with zeros to the left to make 4 bits if there is a
hex charater to the left of that charater.
For example:
3 in hex would just be 11 in binary but A3 in hex would be 10100011 (added two zeros to the
left of 11) in binary.
A=1010 and 3=11 but you need to make 3(11) four bits wide so it would be 0011.
Put the binary values for A and 3 together and you get 10100011.
If you are trying to make a full byte (8 bits) you can pad zeros to the left.
For example:
3 in hex would be 00000011 in binary.
The chart above could also be done like this:
Decimal Binary Hex
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0 0000 0
1 0001 1
2 0010 2
3 0011 3
4 0100 4
5 0101 5
6 0110 6
7 0111 7
8 1000 8
9 1001 9
10 1010 A
11 1011 B
12 1100 C
13 1101 D
14 1110 E
15 1111 F
More hex to binary examples:
D = 1101
D2 = 11010010 (D=1101 and 2=0010)
FE4 = 111111100100 (F=1111, E=1110, and 4=0100)
B0 = 10110000 (B=1011 and 0=0000)
A005 = 1010000000000101 (A=1010, 0=0000, 0=0000, and 5=0101)
Then you can convert from binary to decimal.
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