linzi53

How to convert from any base number system to any base in TrueBasic?

and if you don't know, do you know how to just convert any base to hexidecimal?

ivan

It's not so easy... That would be a little complicated algorithm...

bl00dninja

you need to write individual algorithms for each case. if you're working with numbers of unknown size, the problem grows exponentially in difficulty. and you can fix that with using that very mathematical operation in your algorithm...

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Mocker

I dont know about truebasic, but I dont think the algorithm would be that hard.
I'd first take the number and convert to base10 then convert that to hex

To convert any base you need to know how big the base is, and if the base goes over 10 be able to convert the letters it uses to the number. If you get ff, conver that to 16 and 16. (What do bases do after you run out of letters?)

Anyways, pase the number like a string, starting with the first character

Example, base 11

b3a

a = 10 . position = 0. number x base^position 10x11^0 = 10
3 = 3 . position = 1 3x11^1 = 33
b = 11 position = 2 11x11^2 = blah

base10 = blah+33+10

convert to hex

I could be wrong, but this does not seem hard to implement as long as you know what base it is.

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tempest

I had to take a class on true basic, i think i remember how to write it...

[php]
Input "What is the number? ";num
Let hexChars$ = "0123456789ABCDEF"
Let hexStr$ = " "
Let i = 0

While num > 0
i = i + 1
hexStr$ = hex$[(int(num/16)/int(16^i))int(num/16)/int(16^i)+1] & hexStr$;
num = num / 16(int(num/16))
Wend

hexStr$ = trim$(hexStr$)
print hexStr$
[/php]

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