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Binary Real to Decimal Algorithm

Mar 24th, 2008

Greetings once more. I have been working on a script to convert a user provided number in basetwo and convert it to baseten. What I've got so far:

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myinput = raw_input("Enter a binary real number: ")
(myint, myfrac) = myinput.split(".")
x = int(myint[0])
y = 0
t = len(myint)
while y < (t - 1):
    if y == t:
        z = 0
    else:
        z = int(myint[y + 1])
    x = x * 2 + z
    y = y + 1
b = int(myfrac[-1])
k = len(myfrac)
a = 1
while a <= k:
    if a == k:
        c = 0
    else:
        c = int(myfrac[(-1 - a)])
    b = b * 2 + c
    a = a + 1
print myinput + " in basetwo is equivalent to %d.%d in baseten." % (x, b)
myinput = raw_input("Enter a binary real number: ")
(myint, myfrac) = myinput.split(".")
x = int(myint[0])
y = 0
t = len(myint)
while y < (t - 1):
    if y == t:
        z = 0
    else:
        z = int(myint[y + 1])
    x = x * 2 + z
    y = y + 1
b = int(myfrac[-1])
k = len(myfrac)
a = 1
while a <= k:
    if a == k:
        c = 0
    else:
        c = int(myfrac[(-1 - a)])
    b = b * 2 + c
    a = a + 1
print myinput + " in basetwo is equivalent to %d.%d in baseten." % (x, b)

It seems to work, but I feel like I'm going about this the entirely wrong way ie. there is a simpler way to write this algorithm.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

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Re: Binary Real to Decimal Algorithm

Mar 25th, 2008

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while y < (t - 1):
    if y == t:
while y < (t - 1):
    if y == t:

Note that (t-1) < t, so y is always less than t and the if() portion will never be executed. You can also use a for loop

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t = len(myint)
##while y < (t - 1):
for y in range(0, t):
t = len(myint)
##while y < (t - 1):
for y in range(0, t):