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the octal number system with its 8 digits, ‘0’, ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, ‘6’
and ‘7’, is a base-eight system. Table 2-4 shows the weighting for
the octal number system up to 3 decimal places before and 2
decimal places after the octal point (.).
Octal 2 3 7 0 4
Number
8 44 R 7 (LSB)
8 5 R4
8 0 R 5 (MSB)
0.3125 * Carry
8
0.5 * 8 2 (MSB)
0.0 4 (LSB)
Octal Binary
Digit Digit
0 000
1 001
2 010
3 011
4 100
5 101
6 110
7 111
13 8 = (001011) 2
(37.12) 8 = (011111. 001010) 2
Examples:
111 = 7 (LSB)
010 = 2 (MSB)
110 = 6 (MSB)
111 = 5 (LSB)