I usaully break things down to a nibble at a time if I'm doing binary to hex. 4 bits is exactly 1 Hex digit. Then I make a little chart (stick this chart in your wallet if you cant make it as fast as you can write) Bin = Hex=Dec 0000=0=0 0001=1=1 0010=2=2 0011=3=3 0100=4=4 0101=5=5 0110=6=6 0111=7=7 1000=8=8 1001=9=9 1010=A=10 1011=B=11 1100=C=12 1101=D=13 1110=E=14 1111=F=15 To Go From BIN to HEX or HEX to bin Take any binary number 10101100 break it up into nibbles 1010 1100 Look it up AC Take a Hex number FF Look it up 1111 1111 Your done Sometimes I don't do the table I just covert the nibble to decimal then to hex remembering that 10=A 11=B etc >From Hex to Decimal is only a little harder. If I have my table already I conver it back to binary then to decimal. I do this becase I am faster at Binary to decimal that Hex to decimal. If you really want to go from hex to decimal. just remeber that each digit is 16^number digit. I have a hard time doing that it my head. But since most hex is expressed two digits at a time you can take the LSD(least significant digit) and look it up in the table C=12 Then take the MSD(Most Significant Digit) and times it by 16 A=10*16=160 Add the MSD+LSD and there is you answer 160+12=172 When I do Decimal to Hex I convert the decimal to Binary then I do Binary to Hex. I can do Dec to Bin then Bin to Hext a lot faster than Dec to Hex. I know my 2^n table better than my 16^n table. I hope that helped. Craig "Dale Frohman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Does anyone have a way/tricks in remembering how to do HEX conversions? > > _________________________________ > FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html > Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
