Reputation: 23
I'm working on a code that returns the value in base 10 for a given string and base. But for large values of numbers in base 10, my program just returns 705032704 instead.
#include <iostream>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
using namespace std;
int val(char c)
{
if (c >= '0' && c <= '9')
return (int)c - '0';
else
return (int)c - 'A' + 10;
}
long long basemachine(int base, char *str) { //this function returns answer in base 10
int len=strlen(str); int power=1; long long num=0;
for (int i=len-1; i>=0; i--) {
num+= val(str[i])*power;
power=power*base;
}
return num;
}
int main() {
char str1[]="2P6X2MU";
char str2[]="6PMP5GK";
long long n=basemachine(35, str1);
long long m=basemachine(30, str2);
cout<<n<<" "<<m;
return 0;
}
(2P6X2MU) base 35 and (6PMP5GK) base 30 both = 5000000000
But my code is returning 705032704 705032704 instead of 5000000000 5000000000
How do I fix this?
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