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Converting Numbers

Explore number representation and conversion in Bash programming by understanding decimal and hexadecimal operations, two's complement, and their practical uses. This lesson helps you interpret data from devices and debug issues like integer overflow effectively.

The need to know number representation

We learned how a computer represents numbers in memory. Do we need this knowledge in practice?

Modern programming languages take care to convert numbers to the correct format. For example, we declare a signed integer variable in decimal notation. We do not need to worry about how the computer ...