Contents

✔ Decimal Number System

✔ Base or Radix
✔ Magnitude, Positional weight
✔ Questions
✔ Binary Number System
✔ Binary weights
✔ Questions
 NUMBER SYSTEM

Decimal System of Numbers

DECIMAL NUMBER SYSTEM is the number system we commonly use.

This has 10 digits or symbols. It is called base-ten system.

The ten digits are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

 How do we make numbers?

We make the numbers with these digits as

0, 1, 2 , 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,

Here all digits are over.

So we make new numbers by combining two digits

10, 11,12, 13 ………. 99

Now all two digit combinations are over

So we make new numbers using three digits

100, 101, 102 ….. and so on.
 BASE or RADIX

The base or radix of the number system is the total number of the digit used in the
number system.
Example :
if the number system representing the digit from 0 – 9 then
the base of the system is the 10.
 Magnitude and Weight
Any quantity can be represented by combining digits.
The position of each digit represents its magnitude and can be assigned a weight.
These weights are multiples of ten.

Eg :- 23 = 2*101 + 3*100 = 20 + 3

145 = 1*102 + 4*101 + 5*100

2945=2*103+9*102+4*101+5*100
Magnitude

Also called
RADIX
Questions

Find the positional weight of 5 in decimal number 1567.

Find the positional weight of 3 in (12453)10
Find the positional weight of 2 in (2019)10
What is the radix of decimal number 2378?
Explain the terms a) Base or Radix b) Positional weight c) Magnitude of a decimal number.
Write a note on the decimal number system.
 BINARY NUMBER SYSTEM

Binary number system has two symbols or digits 0 and 1.

It is a base – two system.

 How to make numbers in Binary number system?
We make numbers using 0 and 1
0
1
Here the symbols are over.

So we make more numbers by combining the two binary digits.

00,01,10,11,

Now all two digit combinations are over. So we make three digit numbers
000,001,010,011,100,101,110,111 etc
 Binary Weights
In binary number system also, each digit position has weight.
The number on the right most has weight 20 .
The successive place from the right has a weight of 21 and 22 ,23 etc.
That is the positional weights are 1,2,4,8,16,32,64 etc.
They are the multiples of two.
The bit with positional weight of 20 is called Least Significant Bit. (LSB).
The bit with highest positional weight is called Most Significant Bit. (MSB).
Write numbers 1 to 20 in binary form
DECIMAL BINARY DECIMAL BINARY
0 0000 11 1011
1 0001 12 1100
2 0010 13 1101
3 0011 14 1110
4 0100 15 1111
5 0101 16 10000
6 0110 17 10001
7 0111 18 10010
8 1000 19 10011
9 1001 20 10100
10 1010
Questions

Find the positional weight of 1 in binary number 0100.

Find the positional weight of 1 in (10000)2
Find the positional weight of 1 in (10000)10
What is the radix of binary number 1011?
Find the LSB and MSB of the decimal number 12678?
Find the LSB and MSB of the binary number 101011.
Write a note on binary number system.
Write numbers 20 to 50 in binary form.
Write the following numbers in binary.
A) 30 b) 27 c)14 d) 6
What do you mean by LSB and MSB? Explain with the help of example.