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Base conversion is the process of changing the base of the textual representation of a number to another base. For example, "1010" in binary to "10" in decimal is a base conversion.

Base conversion is the process of changing the base of the textual representation of a number to another base. For example, 1010 in binary to 10 in decimal is a base conversion.

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Smallest positive number to trigger carry out

I'm following a course on Computer Architecture and I have the following exercise: What is the smallest positive decimal number that should be added to -20 so that a carry-out is triggered (in 2 complement's notation)? I solved this exercise, but…
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C# base converter

I stumbled on this method which should do a base convert from a 10 base to radix base, so for example if I pass 28, 16 it should return 1c which is the hexadecimal representation of the decimal 28 private static string convertTo(long value, int…
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Division in base N

I was wondering if there was a specific algorithm for doing this in C. I came up with some approaches however. The problem: I have 2 numbers in base 7. The numbers are divisible, so my answer will always be an integer. I wish to calculate the…
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Why do these base converters give different answers?

I have written a python program to convert numbers from any positive integer base to another. print("Base Converter") from math import log print("This converter uses 0-9, followed by A-Z, followed by a-z, giving it individual characters from 0 -…
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PL/SQL base conversion without functions

Is there any way to convert decimal to binary, or binary to decimal, in Oracle 10g without having to first define a function? I have limited database access (SELECT only) and all the solutions for this I've found online seem to involve CREATE…
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How can I convert a number in a string to any base in assembly?

How can I convert a number contained in a string from any base to any other base? Bases can be anything i.e.: 2, 16, 10, 4, 8, 9. I'm expecting the user to enter the base number. The user will enter the output base (the base to be converted to). The…
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conversion from any base to base 10 c++

I found two ways of conversion from any base to base 10 . the first one is the normal one we do in colleges like 521(base-15) ---> (5*15^2)+(2*15^1)+(1*15^0)=1125+30+1 = 1156 (base-10) . my problem is that i applied both methods to a number…
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Recursive function to convert between number bases fails at certain numbers

I'm trying to a create an algorithm that can convert base 10 numbers into base n numbers, where n is at most 10. However, for some weird reason the following algorithm in C fails at certain critical points for each base. For example, for base 2 and…
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Reverse custom base encode in PHP

I have a program that encodes integers into random looking, unique, maxiumum 5 character strings using a custom base array. I'd like to decode that string back to an integer. Not sure how to accomplish that. Code: function intToAlphaBaseN($n,…
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Convert Binary to Decimal in MIPS, Assembly MARS

I am trying to convert binary to decimal in the MIPS language, using the MARS simulator. The program accepts a binary number, and then does the conversion, by multiplying (shift left by the number's place $t9). Another way of saying that is…
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Need help converting numbers with decimals to other bases C#

I need help with a program in C# that has to convert any number (whether integer or long decimal) to any base (within reason). The program has several text boxes (it's a win form) all starting blank. When the user adds numbers (possibly with a…
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What's wrong with this Decimal to Binary converter (without iteration)

I'm trying to make a code for converting decimal into binary for n<16 without using iteration. but the output is always either 1000, 100, 10 or 1. what is wrong with the code? thank you very much #include int main(void){ int decimal, bin…
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Hex Twos Complement Arithmetic

I'm trying to do the following problem: E8B2035D -FB60528D ---------- In which, the integers represented are hex representations of 32-bit two's compliment binary numbers. What is the best approach to solve this problem, and detect overflow?
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Calculating an integer from its Bytes gives oddly wrong results

I'm trying to read an integer from a data file which is stored raw in little endian format. Once I got the corresponding bytes I originally calculated the integer value by adding the numbers multiplied by their weight (aritmetic method below) but…
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Bigger input base for bc?

I'm searching for a calculator in base 31, i.e., I want both input and output to be in base 31. (I actually don't care much about the format of digits, only that it would be easy writable. So, for example `013456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU' would be…
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