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Lazarus:
Someone wanted me to include Octal, it is an obsolete numbering system, as hex handles the task of representing binary much more efficiently, but here it is none the less,

Octal, or base 8,

in Octal, each digit has 8 possible values, beginning with 0 as the lowest possible value, and ending with 7 as the highest possible value, each digit is used to represent 3 bits of binary code, here is an example of 2 digit Octal used to represent 6 bits of binary code, counting from 00 to 20,

000,000 = 00
000,001 = 01
000,010 = 02
000,011 = 03
000,100 = 04
000,101 = 05
000,110 = 06
000,111 = 07
001,000 = 10
001,001 = 11
001,010 = 12
001,011 = 13
001,100 = 14
001,101 = 15
001,110 = 16
001,111 = 17
010,000 = 20

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Lazarus:
here is an animated table showing various numbering systems and their relationship, it updates every 2.5 seconds,



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