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c# Programming Glossary: octal

BigInteger to Hex/Decimal/Octal/Binary strings?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14048476/biginteger-to-hex-decimal-octal-binary-strings

format it as I pleased b.toString 2 binary b.toString 8 octal b.toString 10 decimal b.toString 16 hexadecimal In C# I can.. Convert.ToString num 2 binary Convert.ToString num 8 octal etc. But I can only do it with long values and smaller. Is there.. this question Convert BigInteger to decimal hex binary octal string Let's start with a BigInteger value BigInteger bigint..

Why are Hexadecimal Prefixed as 0x?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2670639/why-are-hexadecimal-prefixed-as-0x

the prevalent programming number systems were decimal and octal mainframes had 12 24 or 36 bits per byte which is nicely divisible.. by 3 log2 8 . The BCPL language used the syntax 8 1234 for octal numbers. When Ken Thompson created B from BCPL he used the 0.. words and all of the points above were still valid. Since octals were still needed for other machines 0x was arbitrarily chosen..