Base Converter
We build a calculator which can convert any number from any base to any other base. In number systems, “Base” tells us how many numbers you have available. Binary has 2, octal has 8, decimal has 10 etc.
A program which can handle any number and base we give it. It could be save a lot of time when we want to change one base to another.
simple python script to Base convert (Binary, decimal, hexadecimal & Octal etc.) to (Desired base (i.e. Binary, decimal, hexadecimal & Octal).
For script to work you must have python3 installed in your system. To run the script
python3 -u "base_converter.py"
Converting From One Base to Another : The first conversion we should look at is going from any base (Base-N) to the decimal system(Base-10). It is very easy to convert from The decimal system to any other base. Therefore, it is valuable to know how to get to the decimal system.
If we keep using decimal and octal as examples, we can convert a number in the octal system to its equivalent in the decimal system.
The way we do this is that we take each number and multiply it with the base powered by the position index (num * (base^position)). If we start from the lowest number to the right, we multiply 6 with 8⁰, 5 with 8¹ and 2 with 8².
An illustration that will make this a lot easier to understand:
Not only does this mean we can go from Base-10 to Base-8 and vice versa. We can go from Base-X to Base-Y. Any Base we want.
This program covers several aspects of programming. First, we need to find the problem. The problem is that it takes a lot of time to manually convert all the numbers. Then we find/learn the math to solve the problem and find what’s common. As it turns out, we can convert anything to anything with the same formula. We only need to handle binary and hexadecimal input and we need to make sure we don’t try to calculate Base-1. This means we can use functions to handle our code.
