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Engineering function
OCT2DEC
Converts an octal number to decimal.
Rarely usedDifficulty 1250 · ProficientUsage rank #378 of 520
When to use it
Converts octal text to decimal.
The shape of it
- Syntax
=OCT2DEC(number)
Worked examples
Simple
=OCT2DEC(54) → 44
Five eights plus four.
Negative
=OCT2DEC(7777777533) → -165
Ten-digit negatives.
Eight
=OCT2DEC(10) → 8
Octal ten.
Worth knowing
- Up to 10 octal digits.
- DEC2OCT reverses it.
- DECIMAL(text,8) handles longer strings.
Where it goes wrong
- #NUM! for digits 8 or 9 or too many characters.
- Leading zeros are fine.
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