This document discusses converting between octal, binary, and hexadecimal number systems. It provides an example of converting the octal number 56 to its binary and hexadecimal equivalents. The octal number 56 is first converted to its binary representation 101110 by expressing each octal digit as 3 binary bits. Then, the binary number is converted to hexadecimal by grouping it into chunks of 4 bits and finding the corresponding hexadecimal digit, resulting in the hexadecimal equivalent of 2e.