Bill Allombert on Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:12:08 +0200


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Re: Binary 

On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 12:09:40PM +0100, Jon Perry wrote:
> Two points;
> 
> 1.
> 
> ? a
> %1 = a
> ? binary(a)
>   ***   incorrect type in binaire.

What is the problem ? You would prefer
  ***   incorrect type in binary
or you expected something else ?


> Is it possible to force the binary function to return a vector of length n,
> 
> e.g. binary(7,4) = [0,1,1,1]

Not currently but you can do:
? binary2(x,n)=vecextract(binary(bitor(x,1<<n)),(1<<(n+1))-2)

Cheers,
Bill.