From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-03-28T00:58:23+09:00
Subject: Re: how to tranlsate number to binary?

On 3/25/07, Ak 756 <macro.peng@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mike Moore wrote:
>
> > irb(main):008:0> int_to_binary(903)
> > => "001110000111"
>
> Hi ,thanks for advise.
> I want my function to give output 100100000011 for input 903. Where
> '1001','0000','0011' is the binary value for 9,0,3
> Is there efficient way to do this?

Just for the record, that is commonly called BCD (for Binary Coded Decimal).

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