I just posted a GID Community blog entitled: Conversion: Binary, Decimal, Hexadecimal.


Please let me know what you think.

...why assume? Aren't we aware of sizeof( int ) already?


I can appreciate your interest in keeping the code possibly less confusing to novices, but hardcoding magic values like "33" probably sends the wrong message, doesn't it? I believe that conventional thinking tells us that the only magic numbers in a program should be "0" or "1," which lends nicely to a discussion on conversion! However, I tend to favor 0, 1 and -1...and then it is really hard not to accept "2," particularly for finding evenness/oddness, but then that leads us to 8, 16 and many more...even to the point where we get 33 and, then, really any magic number is okay afterwords, right? In fact, the discipline of using magic numbers is vastly overrated, don't you think?

Of course, there are those who would argue that the macro BITS_IN_A_BYTE only marginally "more" portable.


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