Questions tagged [base-conversion]
Conversion of numbers between positional numeral systems. Most common systems are decimal, binary, hexadecimal etc.
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Wait, ASCII was 128 characters all along?
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In this challenge, you have to take a nonnegative integer as input, convert it into base-128 bytes (0 → 0x00, 127 → ...
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Parity of a number with missing digits
It turns out that you need every digit of a number to determine its parity, if it is written in an odd base.
Your programs should take input as a number between 2 and 36 inclusive, and a nonempty ...
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Sum of Positive and Negative Powers of 2
Given a binary string equivalent to \$n\$, write out the least possible number of terms needed to express \$n\$.
A term is defined as an addition of either \$2^k\$ or \$(-2^k)\$, where \$k\$ is a non-...
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Where are zeros? Self-describing sequence
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A167519: Lexicographically earliest increasing sequence which lists the positions of the zero digits in the sequence.
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Convert real numbers between factoradic and positive integer bases
This prompt asked you to convert back and forth to factoradic, but is very limited in scope (only decimal integers from 0 to 10!-1). Your task in this challenge is to reach just a bit further and ...
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Literate Programming in Base 26
Your task is to convert non-empty strings - between strings using the 26 letters, and programs, which are strings of bytes, where each byte has 256 possible values. You should use the same codepage ...
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Base consecutive k-frequency counter [closed]
Given a base \$k\$ as well as two indices (also passed in base \$k\$, call them \$s\$ and \$e\$) return a list containing a frequency count of all base-\$k\$ digits occurring between \$s\$ and \$e\$ ...
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Convert binary to unary
The title says it all; Given a number in the binary (base-2) number system, output the same number expressed in unary (base-1).
You should take the binary number as a string (optionally with a ...
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Numbers that can be negated by reading backwards
Balanced ternary is a modified version of ternary (base 3), using the three digits 1,0 and -1...
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Cube calendar numbers
Credit: Marco Verch CC BY 2.0
A two-cube calendar, as shown in the picture, uses two cubes with digits painted on the faces to display the date. For dates in the range 1-9, a leading zero is used (&...
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Multibase Numbers
(Similar: Through the bases)
Normally, our number system is base ten, with the digits 0123456789. However, we can increase or decrease the base count (so ...
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CGAC2022 Day 16: Playing with bits, Part 2
Part of Code Golf Advent Calendar 2022 event. See the linked meta post for details.
As soon as the Elves get bored with the last week's game, Bin comes up with a new game. The rules are similar, ...
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Output the length of (the length plus a message) [duplicate]
The task is simple. You're given an arbitrary string message. Return that message prefixed with a number, such that the length of that number plus the message equals the number. In other words, the ...
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Carry-less sum given a base b
Given a list of positive integers \$\mathcal I=I_1,I_2,I_3,...,I_n\$ and a base \$b>1\$ return their "carry-less sum", i.e. represent \$\mathcal I\$ in base \$b\$ and sum digit-by-digit ...
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Convert from variable-width Two's Complement to Integer
Take an input, and convert it from Two's Complement notation (binary where the first bit is negated, but the rest are taken as normal) into an integer (in a somewhat standard output form). Input can ...
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