AQA A’Level SLR11 Converting between binary, hex and decimal
About this video
AQA Specification Reference
AS Level 3.5.4.4
A Level 4.5.4.4
Large binary number sequences become difficult to manage, so we often use hexadecimal, the base sixteen number system to represent nibbles of data in one symbol. This video illustrates how to convert between denary, binary and hexadecimal.
Key questions:
- How do you convert from:
1. Decimal to binary fixed point?
2. Decimal to binary floating point?
3. Binary fixed point to decimal?
4. Binary floating point to decimal?
00:00 Converting between different representations
00:10 Intro
00:15 A note about this video
00:51 Decimal to binary fixed point
05:01 Decimal to binary floating point
06:52 Binary floating point to decimal
08:05 Binary fixed point to decimal
08:44 Key questions
08:58 Outro
Last updated: 08.05.25
