[dba-Tech] Conversion of REAL decimal numbers to Hex

On 3/21/06, Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Group,
>
> There are about a jillion decimal to hex converters on the web.  But
> what I'm looking for is a converter that will handle decimal numbers
> with decimals.  That is, convert 1.0625 (decimal) to 1.1
> (hexadecimal).  I can write one that recursively takes the remainder
> from a division by higher and higher powers of 16 and dividing the
> remainder the the next higher power of sixteen, etc.  Just wondered if
> any of you had seen such a utility.

Are you looking for something for integration into a system, or
something for personal use?

Problem with trying to represent a floating decimal based number in a
different system is that you can't always get an exact value for the
number you want to represent, so any cnoversion utility would have to
have a cutoff point.

I've tinkered with a C++ app to do it for me, but it's not anywhere
near professional, just a toy.

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Josh McFarlane

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