Author: Oscar Cronquist Article last updated on March 28, 2018

The BASE function converts a number into a text representation with a given radix (base).

Formula in cell C3:

=BASE(10, 16)

Excel Function Syntax

BASE(number, radix, [min_length])

Arguments

number Required. The number that you want to convert. Must be an integer greater than or equal to 0 (zero) and less than 2^53.
radix Required. The base of the number you want it to convert into. 2 <= radix <= 36.
[min_length] Optional. The minimum length of the returned string. [min_length] must be an integer greater than or eual to 0 (zero).

Comments

Use the min_length argument to add leading zeros to the resulting value. BASE(16,2) returns 10000, however, BASE(16,2,8) returns 00010000.

The DC2BIN function also allows you to convert numbers into binary values.

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