Convert Octal to Hex

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

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.

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.

About Octal conversion to Hex

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

How it Works?

Just paste your Octal numbers to the textarea above and click to the button "Convert" and you will get Hex numbers in the next textarea.

Example

173

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