EBME Forums Forums Free discussion Out of Hours A Departmental Quiz Question....

Dear Colleagues

We (My EBME Department) have devised a quick fire quiz question following a discussion my colleague had with his young son. Out of interest we would like to share it with you.

Please have as many guesses as you like, this question is designed to be answered under exam conditions!

Convert: AEF8 Into Binary Form.



Points will be given for effort!

1010111011111000

I hope you do not give this as a test quiestion to your interviewees.
1010111011111000
Done on paper by convertting each digit in turn. Am I right?
Robert

Is this one of those "where did they bury the survivors" questions?

I get 1010111011111000

As Robert says, you just convert each Hex digit into a 4 bit binary number.

Jeff

Well, I hope that is all you do, or I have just made a fool of myself in public.
Some things never change.
Robert

I reckon you convert hex to decimal and then to binary. This gives me the answer 10110100110000.

I hope not, if I coded that way, the hard drive would explode

I hope this is a joke, any ebme tech should be able to answer this in his first year

OOPS! I made a right cods of that didn't I? You can do it the way I suggested, ie via decimal, but it is a bit tedious and therefore prone to errors, as shown.
As an EBME tech in his 65th year I hang my head in shame.