Engineering - OCT2BIN Function

Description

The OCT2BIN function converts an octal number to binary.

OCT2BIN (number, [places])

Argument	Description	Required/ Optional
Number	The octal number you want to convert. Number may not contain more than 10 characters. The most significant bit of number is the sign bit. The remaining 29 bits are magnitude bits. Negative numbers are represented using two's-complement notation.	Required
Places	The number of characters to use. If places is omitted, OCT2BIN uses the minimum number of characters necessary. Places is useful for padding the return value with leading 0s (zeros).	Optional

Argument

Description

Required/ Optional

Number

The octal number you want to convert.

Number may not contain more than 10 characters. The most significant bit of number is the sign bit. The remaining 29 bits are magnitude bits.

Negative numbers are represented using two's-complement notation.

Required

Places

The number of characters to use.

If places is omitted, OCT2BIN uses the minimum number of characters necessary.

Places is useful for padding the return value with leading 0s (zeros).

Optional

If number is negative, OCT2BIN ignores places and returns a 10-character binary number.
If number is negative, it cannot be less than 7777777000.
If number is positive, it cannot be greater than 777.
If places is not an integer, it is truncated.
If number is not a valid octal number, OCT2BIN returns the #NUM! error value.
If OCT2BIN requires more than places characters, it returns the #NUM! error value.
If places is nonnumeric, OCT2BIN returns the #VALUE! error value.
If places is negative, OCT2BIN returns the #NUM! error value.
If places is >10, OCT2BIN returns the #NUM! error value.

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