LOGO-L> Re: Question: Binary Numbers

[George Mills <mills@softronix.com>]

That's just how I suggested to someone that they could do
infinite precision math. In any base, not just binary.

Although sin and cos could get a little tricky :-)

Brian wrote:
> 
> slary61@MAINE.EDU writes:
> >Is it possible to work with binary numbers in
> >winlogo, without having to process them as a
> >list of numbers (eg [00000000] )  I'd like
> >to do something like 00000001b + 1b = 00000010b
> 
> You can write procedures to do binary arithmetic.
> 
> to add :a :b [:carry 0]
> if and empty? :a empty? :b [output "]
> output word (add butlast :a butlast :b int (((last :a)+(last :b)+:carry)/2)) ~
>             remainder ((last :a)+(last :b)+:carry) 2
> end
> 
> something like that...  I'm making this up on the spur of the moment.
> I haven't worried about handling inputs of different numbers of digits,
> etc.
> 
> If you want to use very long binary numerals, quote them:
> 
> print add "101010101010101010101010101010 "0000000000000000111111111
> 
> 

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