R1TMARG%AKRONVM.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Tim Margush) (10/19/89)
>From: Ken Johnson <ken@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk> >Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal >Subject: Base conversion (was Re: Brain Teaser) >Message-ID: <1246@skye.ed.ac.uk> >Date: 18 Oct 89 09:42:30 GMT >Followup-To: comp.lang.pascal >To: info-pascal@vim.brl.mil > >> Write a routine that will convert from one base to another. >> function convert(base : integer; input_num : string) : string; > >Can anyone extend this to cover multi-base arithmetic with fractions? >For example, 1.4(8) should convert to 1.1(2) and >10.875(10) to A.E(16) A bit more must be specified here. For example what is to be done with .1(ten) when converting to base two? How many decimal places? or hor should the repeating section be identified? I have assigned this problem to my Computer Programming II class as a programming assignment. I had them indicate a repeating group of digits in parenthesis, thus 1/3 (ten) would be written as 0.(3) base ten. I did not have them process inputs of this form, only to display their output. An input of 3.1 (ten) converted to base two would be displayed as 11.0(0011) (two) or 3.1(9) (hex) or 3.0(6314) (eight). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Margush R1TMARG@AKRONVM.BITNET Department of Mathematical Sciences R1TMARG@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU University Of Akron R1TMARG@AKRONVM.UAKRON.EDU Akron, OH 44325 (216) 375-7109