tobin()

tobin(<number>)
tooct(<number>)
todec(<number>)
tohex(<number>)

Write <number> in binary, octal, decimal or hexadecimal, as a 32-bit value.

<number> is read by how it starts: 0x is hexadecimal (0x1F), a leading 0 octal (017), and a second character of b binary (0b101); anything else is decimal. Reading stops at the first character that is not a digit, and no digits at all is 0. A binary number is the exception: every character after 0b takes a place, so todec(0b101x) is 10, and more than 32 sets every bit.

tobin() always writes 32 digits.
tohex() writes capital letters.
A negative number is written as its 32-bit two’s complement, so todec(-1) is 4294967295.

These functions come from RhostMUSH. baseconv() converts between any two bases.

> think tobin(5)
00000000000000000000000000000101
> think tohex(255) tooct(8) todec(0x1F) todec(0b101)
FF 10 31 5

Output: the same kind of number, written in another base.

::: seealso

baseconv()
mask() :::