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What is the rightmost place value in any base?
Short answer. 1.
What are the first hex place values?
1, 16 and 256.
Place values
| Base | Place values |
|---|---|
| 2 | 8, 4, 2, 1 |
| 8 | 64, 8, 1 |
| 10 | 100, 10, 1 |
| 16 | 256, 16, 1 |
Remember
| Rightmost place is 1 |
| Multiply by the base |
Is ten always worth ten? Not in every base. Place values multiply by the base. Binary doubles. Octal multiplies by eight. Decimal by ten. Hex by sixteen. Remember. The rightmost place is one. Then multiply by the base.
This clip is from the full lesson: Number Systems: Binary, Octal, Decimal and Hexadecimal — 7 minutes, with the tables, the quick answers and the whole lesson in text.
Useful for: CBSE Class 11 Computer Science (083), CBSE Class 11 Computer Science Essentials (083), ISC Class 11 Computer Science (868), ISC Class 12 Computer Science (868)
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