I am trying to make a program which is able to do both decimal to binary and binary to decimal conversions.
I am having trouble with the binary to decimal portion of the code. Forgive me as I know the coding is quite incomplete but I can't figure out where I am going wrong.
Currently I am getting partially correct output in the calculation field (ex. "there is a 1 in the value of (2^0)" and "there is a 2 in the value of (2^1)").
However, when I type 11 as decimal the calculation field is repeating the code twice (ex. "there is a 1 in the value of (2^0)","there is a 2 in the value of (2^1)","there is a 1 in the value of (2^0)", "there is a 2 in the value of (2^1)").
Obviously it should only give those values once per number.
Also the output field for the actual binary number is incorrect as well, and some of the variables aren't utilized/not needed, but I have been trying to fix the problem of repeating values first before I worked on that.
Any help would be much appreciated!!
function convertByArray(bval) {
var rB = new Array();
var outstr = "";
var p, t, a, o;
o = 0;
for(var i=0; i<bval.length; i++) {
var b = bval.charCodeAt(i);
t = 2;
p = i;
a = t ** p;
if(a === t ** p) {
outstr += a;
}
var bV = b;
$("txtCalc").value += "There is a " + a + " in the value " + "(" + t + "^" + p + ")" + "\n";
o += 1;
b = bV;
$("txtOut").value = outstr;
}
}
You can simply your code if you access the most-significant bit of the bit-string by taking the length (minus one) and subtracting it from the current position. You can access string characters like an array.
var $txtCalc = $(".txtCalc");
var $txtOut = $(".txtOut");
binaryToDecimal("10010101"); // 149
function binaryToDecimal(bval) {
var base = 2, result = 0;
for (var pos = 0; pos < bval.length; pos++) {
var bit = +bval[(bval.length - 1) - pos];
if (bit === 1) {
result += base ** pos;
}
var message = "There is a " + bit + " in the position (" + base + "^" + pos + ")";
$txtCalc.val($txtCalc.val() + message + "\n");
}
$txtOut.val(result);
}<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input class="txtOut" />
<br />
<textarea class="txtCalc" rows="10" cols="60"></textarea>Alternatively, you can simply your program to the following. In JavaScript, you can parse any number in any base and format to another base.
var $txtOut = $(".txtOut");
binaryToDecimal("10010101"); // 149
function convertFromBaseToBase(number, fromBase, toBase) {
return parseInt(number, fromBase).toString(toBase);
}
function binaryToDecimal(bval) {
$txtOut.val(convertFromBaseToBase(bval, 2, 10));
}<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input class="txtOut" />