Convert Hex to Octal

This form allows you convert Hex to Octal, paste or upload your hex number below:

What is Hex?

Hexadecimal describes a base-16 number system. That is, it describes a numbering system containing 16 sequential numbers as base units before adding a new position for the next number. The hexadecimal numbers are 0-9 and then use the letters A-F.

Also anyone who has designed a web page has encountered hexadecimal value when doing colors. For example, to create red text use the HTML color code #FF0000, which translates to 255 red, 0 green, and 0 blue in hexadecimal.

What is Octal?

Octal refers to the base-8 numbering system. It comes from the Latin word for eight. An octal number system consists of eight single-digit numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. The number after 7 is 10. The number after 17 is 20 and so forth.

In computing environments, it is commonly used as a shorter representation of binary numbers by grouping binary digits into threes. The chmod command in Linux or UNIX uses octal to assign file permissions.

About Hex conversion to Octal

The Convert Hex to Octal was created for online converting any Hexadecimal numbers into Octal numbers.

How it Works?

Just paste your hex number to the textarea above and click to the button "Convert" and you will get decoded Octal in the next textarea.

Example

7b

173