NonStop Operations Guide for H-Series and J-Series RVUs

Figure 18 Octal to Decimal Conversion
1. Take the rightmost octal digit and multiply it by the rightmost placeholder value.
2. Moving to the left, take the next octal digit and multiply it by the next placeholder value.
Continue to do this until the octal number has been exhausted.
3. Add the multiplied values together. The result is:
Decimal ValueOctal Value
765%1375
Hexadecimal to Decimal
To convert a hexadecimal number to a decimal number:
1. Starting from the right, multiply the least significant (rightmost) hexadecimal digit by the first
placeholder value. Moving towards the left, multiply each new hexadecimal digit by its
corresponding placeholder value until the hexadecimal number is exhausted.
To establish placeholder values, the first placeholder value (on the far right) is 1. Then for
each new placeholder value to the left, multiply the value to the right by 16.
Convert the letters of a hexadecimal number to decimal values before multiplying. Use this
table for conversion:
DecimalHexadecimal
10A
11B
12C
13D
14E
15F
2. Add the results of the multiplications in Step 1.
234 Converting Numbers