Purpose
Converts a binary number to octal
Return value
Octal number
Syntax
=BIN2OCT(number,[places])- number - The binary number you want to convert to octal.
- places - [optional] If omitted uses the least number of characters required to represent the number, otherwise pads the result with zeros up to the specified number of places.
How to use
- The input number must contain only zeros and ones and be less than 10 characters long, otherwise the function returns the #NUM! error value.
- The first bit of the binary number indicates whether the number is positive or negative. The other nine digits represent the size of the number, the max of which is 511 (2^9 - 1). A negative binary number is expected to use the two's complement notation.
Related functions
DECIMAL Function
The Excel DECIMAL function converts a number in a given base into its decimal number equivalent. For example, the DECIMAL function can convert the binary number 1101 into the decimal number 13.
