Decimal to Binary program w/o built in method

Question

I am making a decimal to binary program in an entry level AP computer science class. I used the decimal to binary algorithm but the program prints out the reverse of the binary string.

public static void main (String[]args) {

  int n = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);

  while (n>0) {   
    if (n%2==0) {   //for even numbers
      System.out.print("0");
      n/=2; //
    }
    else {
      System.out.print("1");
      n--; // for odd numbers
      n/=2;
    }
  }
}

ragingasiancoder · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-20 14:11:10Z

1

If you understand that it's printing it out backwards, then perhaps you can make a simple fix.

Add a String variable and tack on the "1" or "0" in front of that variable, and the result at the end will be your binary result.

Sample code that will work is:

String ans = "";
...
ans = "1" + ans;

OR

ans = "0" + ans;

answered Jun 20, 2016 at 14:11

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