Can anyone demonstrate how to convert a large hexadecimal number to decimal.
For example how would I convert 8000F58000104CC6 ?

Thanks for any help
Tony

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If you have Delphi 4, use an Int64 and just call StrToInt. (Preface the
hex string with '$' to tell StrToInt that it's hex.)
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                6h -> 6  * 1  
+              C0h -> 12 * 16  
+             C00h -> 12 * 16*16  
+            4000h -> 4  * 16*16*16  
+           00000h -> 0  * 16^4
+          100000h -> 1  * 16^5
+         0000000h -> 0  * 16^6
+        00000000h -> 0  * 16^7
+       000000000h -> 0  * 16^8
+      8000000000h -> 8  * 16^9
+     50000000000h -> 5  * 16^10
+    F00000000000h -> 15 * 16^11
+   0000000000000h -> 0  * 16^12
+  00000000000000h -> 0  * 16^13
+ 000000000000000h -> 0  * 16^14
 8000000000000000h -> 8  * 16^15
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(8000F58000104CC6)h -> 9223641966960463046

You could use the windows calculator Scientific wiew :)

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JRS:  In article <7bvuvs$f4...@nnrp1.dejanews.com> of Mon, 8 Mar 1999
07:41:49 in news:comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc, tonyrobinson@my-

This is Pascaloid pseudocode, not necessarily strict Delphi :

        D := 0 ;
        for J := 1 to Length(S) do
          D := 10*D + Pred(Pos(S[J], '0123456789ABCDEF')) ;

For large numbers, you will either need to make D a float and accept
limited accuracy, or implement your own long decimal type and
operations.  My Web programs/longcalc.pas includes long arithmetic.

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Make D a Comp type (64 bit)

JRS:  In article <u9#7Utaa#GA.162@upnetnews03> of Mon, 8 Mar 1999
16:28:22 in news:comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc, Bruce Roberts

Only for small values of large; but, of course, comp is really a sort of
semi-float type.

If the answer fits in comp, the following technique, tested in BP7,
should work, though if a 64-bit fixed type is available the question
becomes so trivial that I presume it would not have been necessary. :

const A :
  record case byte of 1: (C : comp) ; 2: (Lo, Hi : longint) end =
  (Lo : $00104CC6; Hi : $8000F580) ;
begin writeln(A.C:40:0) ;
readln end.

I hope the right answer is of value   -9223102106749088570.

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