For lack of a better name, we'll call it that. For now.
This document outlines the procedure in which work makes it from start to finish, merging into master. We'll be looking at it from a pretty high level and skimming over a lot as we go.
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An Elisp attempt at a little engineering problem--converting a decimal number to binary.
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| (defun dec-to-bin (dec) | |
| (interactive "nDecimal number to convert: ") | |
| (setq debug-on-error t) | |
| (let ((bin-string "") | |
| (current-dec dec)) | |
| (while (/= 0 current-dec) | |
| (setq bin-string (concat (number-to-string (% current-dec 2)) bin-string)) | |
| (setq current-dec (truncate (/ current-dec 2)))) | |
| (message "%d in binary is %s" dec bin-string))) |