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Code Snippets / decimal -> base conversion

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Bored of the Rings
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Posted: 6th Jul 2021 06:46
Here's a piece of code I knocked up in couple of mins which converts decimal whole numbers to either binary, hex, octal. of course we have functions hex$ and bin$ but wanted to test out octal (base 8) also.
I wrote a recursive function which worked to a point, but "endfunction res$" for example did not return the final string, and am working on a differernt way to get it to return correctly.
No code to handle negative numbers yet i.e. the complement system




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Bored of the Rings
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Posted: 6th Jul 2021 07:51 Edited at: 6th Jul 2021 07:53
recursion version:

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Bored of the Rings
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Posted: 7th Jul 2021 12:12 Edited at: 7th Jul 2021 12:15
2's complement to be added to code. This is for those not familiar with 2's complemente, is where all the bits get reversed and +1 added. range for neg values would be -128 -> +127 e.g. -128 would be stored as 10000000
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Bored of the Rings
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Posted: 9th Jul 2021 07:14
of course doing it the other way around i.e. binary to decimal:



To get -7, we use 2's complement (and adding 1).. so 65529-65535(+1)= -7

2's complement for those that don't know, is where the bits get reversed e.g. 7 in binary = 00000111 and 2's complement 11111001


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