In order to understand the bit manipulation operators, it is first necessary to understand how integers are represented in binary. We talked a little bit about this in section Integersand will expand upon it here. We multiply each binary digit by its digit value determined by its position. Summing up all these values gives us the total. This can easily be extended to 16 or 32 bit binary numbers simply by adding more columns. Converting from for to binary is a little more tricky, but still pretty straightforward. There are two good methods to do this. The first method involves continually dividing by 2, and writing down the remainders. This method can be easier with small binary numbers. Consider the decimal number again. Yes, so the 1 bit must be 1. First, line them up, as we have above. Then, starting from the right and working left, we add each column of digits, just like we do in a decimal number. Now, how do we add 1 to any given binary number such as? A 0 sign bit means the number is positive, and a 1 sign bit means the number is negative. Consider the number If a negative value was simply represented as the inverse of the positive number, 0 would have two representations positive zero and negative zero. By adding 1, intentionally overflows and becomes This prevents 0 from having two representations, and simplifies some of the internal logic needed to do arithmetic with negative numbers. If the sign bit is 1, then we invert the bits, add 1, then convert to decimal, then make that decimal number negative because the sign bit was originally negative. Yes, so the 1 bit is Show Solution We already know that 93 is from the previous example. An even faster way is to use windows calculator or another program. The wordpress spam filter binary a really good job of catching stuff, but it occasionally gets false positives. I made this program that converts decimal to binary. It uses the same technique as the tutorial shows. Binary mainly did this because most the programs I have made have had a guideline to it. This one I made up all on my own and it is effective for decimal I plan on expanding it further include bigger numbers. This is very cool! This piece of code works like a charm! I will se this for my gaming and simlation classes! You are creating a function before before the int main where your program begins. Or am I right in assuming that this is why there is a need for signed and unsigned? You are correct that is both and As you surmise, which value you actually get is determined by whether your variable is signed or unsigned. Also works in reverse and with Hexadecimal and Octal. So I tried to create a program to convert a decimal number into a binary number based on your thoughts. The way you organize these tutorials combined with contributions from these comment sections put together some really impressive stuff. You have to know how to interpret the representation this is why variables have types. However, after that point, the meanings diverge is unsigned, but signed. Every additional bit adds 1 to both signed and unsigned numbers. If the power of 2 is equal to the number, we should set the according bit to 1 and substract. I had to look up arrays but that was the only new concept here, it was the only way I could think of to reverse the order of the bits. However doing it this way has the benefit that it can easily be extended to work for any positive number. Thanks for these awesome tutorials! There was a typo on line 23, -index should be -—index. The correct code should be while index! This fixes the double dash issue as well. Thank you for your help. I was looking for something that implement stack with vector for decimal to binary conversion. I tried Solving the problem this way. I am a bit puzzled about the inverting all the bits into the opposite value. Why is this done? Am I right thinking it is only done for signed numbers? As for why we do this, we do this because it makes the math work out nicely, and allows us to add both positive and negative numbers without having to do anything special. Consider: Any binary number plus its inverse is If we add 1, we get due to overflow. So, by arbitrarily deciding that the binary representation for a negative number should be the inverse of the positive plus 1, binary guarantee that that any positive for number plus its negative signed number will equal binary As it should! The pow function returns a double. The compiler is warning you that the double value could be truncated. I just want to say thank you so much for these! I know it will get harder which I am looking forward too but the amount binary detail you use as well as the way you explain each topic is very clear and precise. Again, thank you so much! Am I the only one using for tutorial…? Great tutorial, thank you. Also, I was wondering. Oh and one more thing. I look at the comments and see all these complicated codes that I only have understand. Are they just more advanced or am I just slow haha. Unfortunately though you will still be a while off making games and applications, especially if you have no prior programming experience. The programming gods out there have utilized the language to create some code that will probably make your eyes bleed just looking at it, never mind trying to understand it. For will have to use that code to create apps or games. It may take a while to reach that point, but never feel discouraged and keep pushing, learning and practicing. If you find a project you like, start tearing through it. Some, if not most, people here me included have some prior programming knowledge. Some of the code looks like Chinese because the tutorial, at this point, has not yet covered the topic such as for loops. If you are able to answer the quizzes with similar code as the provided answers, it means you understand the intended lesson and you should be proud. Learning to program is a very binary shot from easy, no one expects you to be a pro tomorrow. My suggestion is binary through a chapter x for for then go through it again before moving on to the next. It is a lot of information and sometimes some can be lost or new information in a later lesson can help you understand a previous lesson better. Ah the most inspirational reply ever. It compiles and works almost fine, except that the answer is raised by 1 the binary answer. If it does not meet the condition, x is not modified, but it still returns x. Can someone tell me why? Then I glanced at your answer for a hint and realized that the hint should have warned me off going that route. Thank you for the tutorial. Been following obsessively for a couple days now. It is definitively demystifying the world of programming for me. Thought I would throw my solution into the mix as well. I think I over complicated it but it worked just the same. We get to those in more detail next for. There appears to be a word switch error. Method 2 should say "Decimal to binary", not vice-versa as it currently states. This is how I did it, I was too lazy to include the formatting, so it just print the binary in one long line. Using method 1, we get the answer bottom up. Using method 2, we get the answer top down. Alex, For the Quiz question number 6, you used binary 2 to write the code, but I always use method 1 to convert decimal to binary, so I wanted to use method 1 to write the code. This is what I wrote and it works fine EXCEPT that it prints the digits in reverse order because that is how we calculate the bits in method 1 the binary most bit is calculated first. Can you suggest something to fix my code and make it print right to left? Or the only way to achieve this is method 2 because it starts calculating bits from left? Probably the easiest way would to use a std::string to collect all of the bits as you calculate them, and then print the string at the end of your program. We cover std::string in lesson b -- An introduction for std::string. Thanks Alex, will wait to get there. I did see another commentator above, "Stamos" write a program using method 1 by assigning each output to a new integer variable and then print all the integers in reverse order. Thanks again for all the help! But your function returns an int, so the double gets implicit converted to an int which can result in a loss of data, hence the warning. I understand everything else and its very well written but I am really puzzled as to HOW you do this and why becomes? It works just like normal math. This was a great exercise Alex! Also felt like sharing my answer. However, I simply casting using intis that acceptable code? If you need to convert a double to an int, this is the best way to do it, as it makes it explicit that the conversion is intentional. I have two questions. I know it is probably beyond the scope of this section but i am very curious. CPU have instructions for dealing with many fundamental data types. But what happens when the file already is executable? Btw - Thank you very much, Im very glad i found this tutorial! When the program is compiled into an executable, the compiler turns your code into CPU instructions that do the conversions. I mean, how is the compiler manifested when the program is already executable? Doesnt it have know in advance where the free memory will be? This could include code to convert one type to another, or other helper tools. I made the same thing for ternary numbers. Do you think this is well written, Alex? What would you improve? Lets see if I understand binary bit If the left most bit is a one the number has to be negative, unless all the bits are ones. Which makes this would be Is this true? Therefore if you see this I know right away that this has to be a negative number. Since the left most bit is a one and all the other bit differ. Not all ones I this true? To convert to a negative decimal, I now subtract one to give me this then I invert it to this and the decimal is Is this true? FYI: Windows 7 and 8 now have a programmer calculator PC to convert values. The scientific calculator no longer has the bin and dec keys. But the new PC has very poor instructions. You may want to look at it since it uses and, or ,not. This may be useful in future lessons. This is why data type matters, it tells you how to interpret the bits. Warning Windows 7 and 8 come with a Windows programmers calculator. This calculator does not come with instructions on how to use it, so you may get unexpected results. I tried to convert binary to decimal and vice versa and I got the wrong results a couple of times. This was probably due to an error on the way I did my entries. After working with the Windows 7 programmers calculator for a while I finally got it to work properly every time. The problem is you can not enter a negative number when you are in decimal dec mode. There is no button to switch a positive number to a negative. However you can enter a negative number in between parentheses then it works. Note: The numbers do not turn negative until you place the closing parentheses. My alternative answer to question 6. I only understand the make this but not the use this. Heres my code for singed-unsigned decimal to binary converter…I dont know how the decimals are stored…The concept of float is still floaty lol. I wonder if i could make it simpler. I really do need to learn to think with functions. Many have asked about How the system can different between and depending on whether its signed or unsigned integer defined. Still do not quite get it. If under signed declarations, is -76, then what is in signed binary form? There is no in 8 binary signed binary form. Like others, I was still confused about the left bit concept until I saw this lol Hey alex i too wrote the same programme for decimal to binary converter,but everytime the compiler takes the same value of x which it takes from the user for input. If the leftmost binary digit in the original binary number is 1, the decimal number is negative. I just realised my binaryValue function had a gross, gross mistake in the x variable decrements. I have fixed it now here rest of the program stays the same : This seems generally fine. In decimal math, there are ten values: 0 through As soon as we add 1 to 9, the digit rolls over binary 0, and we carry a 1 to the next column. In binary math, there are only two values: 0 and As soon as we add 1 to 1, the digit rolls binary to 0, and we carry a 1 to the next column. So, first we add rightmost column. We can do this a different way. I added a section to the lesson talking about how to add binary numbers. It depends on the interpretation of the binary number. If the left-most bit is not a sign bit, then we can pad with zeros to the left no matter what the left-most bit is. If the left-most bit is a sign bit, then we would pad with whatever value the sign-bit is. A 0 sign bit means the number is positive, and a 1 sign bit means the number is negative" it made me thought that given a binary value like i would check to see if the left most bit is 0 then its positive and if its 1 its negative so is negative but seeing the padded 0s i got confused as to how am i going to check if the left most value is 1 or 0 if i pad it with 0 it will always be positive etc. This is why the typing information is important -- it tells you how to interpret the bits. And I got confused. In the program in question 6, when we convert the input number into a binary, the program gives us 8 digits. The other 3 bytes are just unused. It must have overlooked it because the code works fine actually… The binary number in the output is changing accordingly to what I type. Oh, I think I get it. So using my compiler Xcode I cannot use fixed-width integers instead of regular integers because the binary representation would be different? Sorry for asking so many questions. You can definitely use the fixed-width integers on xcode. Okey, thank you for your reply and help. I m a beginner in programming too. That means x never changes. When doing the number 6 quiz i got a very similar solution to yours. But only after i over complicated it and failed on the first try and started over. I was trying to make the solution more simple when i over complicated it. Inside the function, implement an algorithm to convert decimal numbers between 0 and to their binary equivalents. Used a bunch of terrible coding practices, its messy but gets for job done. Clearly it would be more efficient if they were together, soo… any reason? You are my teacher. Get rid of uBinNumber altogether and move just cout 0 or 1 inside your if statement. I for the program with 8 functions, one for each bit. Then I saw how elegant your solution was. I keep forgetting about passing multiple arguments to one function. Most times you have a bunch of statements or functions that are almost identical, you can probably collapse them into something simpler by parameterizing something. Thank you so much, as always. The second method would be to use recursion and write out the results after the recursive function call so they write in reverse order. The binary number is constructed at the end from the remainders, from the bottom up. If the sign bit is 0, just convert the number as shown for unsigned numbers above. Yes, so the 1 bit is The answer is For already know that 93 is from the previous example. So, check if we can do that!
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