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Old 09-07-2006, 01:06 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I've never heard of converting an 8 bit binary number to Hex by splitting it to nibbles first.
One hex digit represents four binary digits, which is why some learn this method. It's actually much easier this way.

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First to answer your question, yes, 0110 would be six and 0011 would be 3, which would make your whole byte as 9.
Intuitively, it seems like you should add the 6 and the 3, but that would yield the wrong answer, as you pointed out. Instead, using this method, you just concatenate the 6 and the 3. Thus, the answer is 63h, which is the same result you calculated.
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