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From: "Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>
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Subject: Re: Binary value
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:54:21 -0500
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It could not possibly get any easier. Ada allows you to express numeric
literals in bases other than 10. The syntax is B#nnnn# where B is a base and
the nnnn is the number in appropriate base representation. (octal, hex,
binary,... base 7 or 5 if you want to be unique!) So a binary number could
be expressed as:

2#1111_1111_1111_1111#

or just for fun:

16#FFFF#
8#177777#
10#65535#

IIRC, you can only use bases between 2..16 - but that covers most of the
ground anybody would want.

Note also that burried somewhere in Text_IO are routines that will allow you
to print results using a base other than 10 - just in case you want to do a
little I/O with your bits...

MDC
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"Bob Gratton" <bobby@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Ok... now I know how to use bitwise operators... I'd like to know also how
> to convert an integer value to its equivalent in binary.
>
> e.g.: 123 => 1111011
>
> Thanx again!
>
> Bob
>
>