Reputation:
I'm writing a user-defined function to convert integers to binary. The largest number that could be converted with the function should be a binary number with 16 1 s. If a larger number is entered as d, the function should display an error message. With my code, I'm trying to add the numbers 0 or 1 to my vector x based on the remainder, then I want to reverse my final vector to display a number in binary. Here's what I have:
function [b] = bina(d)
% Bina is a function that converts integers to binary
x = [];
y = 2;
in = d/2;
if d >=(2^16 -1)
fprintf('This number is too big')
else
while in > 1
if in >= 1
r = rem(in,y);
x = [x r]
end
end
end
end
Upvotes: 0
Views: 1884
Reputation: 25242
As you insist on a loop:
x = [];
y = 2;
in = d;
if d >=(2^16 -1)
fprintf('This number is too big')
else
ii = 1;
while in > 0
r = logical(rem(in,y^ii));
x = [r x];
in = in - r*2^(ii-1);
ii = ii+1;
end
end
b = x;
You had the right ideas, but you need to update the variables in your while-loop with every iteration. This is mainly in
, where you need to subtract the remainder. And just store the binary remainders in your variable x
.
You can check your result with
x = double( dec2bin(d, 16) ) - 48
You could also use a for loop, by pre-calculating the number of iterations with
find( d < 2.^(1:16),1)
and then
if d >=(2^16 -1)
fprintf('This number is too big')
else
for ii = 1:find( d < 2.^(1:16),1)
r = logical(rem(in,y^ii));
x = [r x];
in = in - r*2^(ii-1)
end
end
Upvotes: 2