Re: convert to binary number

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Re^2: convert to binary number by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 06, 2017 at 04:38 UTC
No, it's not. It's a number, and the OP really does want to convert it to binary. Binary is a text representation of a number just like decimal, octal and hexadecimal.	[reply]
Re^3: convert to binary number by Anonymous Monk on Jun 06, 2017 at 05:16 UTC
It's electrons caught in little bits of silicon, pretending to be bits, pretending to be numbers.	[reply]
Re^3: convert to binary number by Lotus1 (Vicar) on Jun 07, 2017 at 13:17 UTC
I was surprised by your statement "No, it's not. It's a number, ...". You were responding to my assertion that the integer was already in binary and could be printed in different bases with `printf`. Yes, an integer is a number but that doesn't mean it is not stored as binary in memory. Are you referring to assigning a number to a scalar variable such as `my $num = 42` ? According to perlnumber an integer is represented in Perl as a native integer according to the C compiler used to build Perl. Maybe I have assumed Perl is more like C than it really is. I was referring to how it is stored in memory and that you can use printf to display the value in other bases or even in binary. The OP was vague and didn't provide examples so I'm wondering how to know what the OP really wanted.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: convert to binary number by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 09, 2017 at 21:52 UTC
You were responding to my assertion that the integer was already in binary and could be printed in different bases with printf. I was responding to your assertion that no conversion was required. I wasn't responding to your contradictory assertion that `printf` could perform the required conversion.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: convert to binary number by Lotus1 (Vicar) on Jun 10, 2017 at 03:59 UTC
Re^6: convert to binary number by Anonymous Monk on Jun 10, 2017 at 05:56 UTC
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