In this article, I'm covering something that's a little abstruse: converting numeric bases within shell scripts. There are really four commonly used numeric bases to consider: binary, octal, decimal ...

Every now and then you come across something that Excel doesn’t have a function for which requires you to get fancy and figure out some tricky way to get the job done. While coding up a solution in ...

The conversion of a decimal number to its base 8 equivalent is started by the repeated division method. Divide the base 10 number by 8 and extract the remainders. The first remainder will be the LSD, ...

Conversion of binary to decimal numbers is often needed in firmware. And it’s done easily enough if multiplication and division by ten are acceptable. However, these operations, especially division, ...