Use this tag for questions about using, storing or manipulating integral values of all types and sizes, including concerns about overflow. Not for code that casually happens to use integers.
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Counting digits of numbers
Write a program that loops prompting for positive or zero integers of
data type long. Then the number of digits the integer consists of (in
decimal representation) should be printed to stdout. ...
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Forced and easy hton/ntoh conversion
Context:
When sending message across the network, the sender has to convert the message from host byte order to network byte order and the receiver has to do the the reverse - network order to host ...
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Wrapper for GMP in C++
I'm writing a C++ high precision library based on GMP, sample code(files which have to be added to project):
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Assembly 8086 program to input a 16-bit signed number (in string form) and output its binary equivalent
I'm working on an exercise using Assembly 8086 which inputs a number (in string form) then output the binary form. Here is what I did (tested on emu8086 by the way):
Convert the string to numeric ...
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Improved Van Emde Boas tree based map in Java
After working on Van Emde Boas tree -based map in Java, I came up with this code. I managed to fix the bugs and improve the performance by using internally primitive integers instead of wrapped ...
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Assembly x8086 (emu8086) - Display 32bits number on screen
this is my code (assembly x8086, not MIPS, and I'm using emu8086) to display a 32-bits number on screen. Of course the basic algorithm is as follows:
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Adding two Integers in an Array
I was wondering if I could get a second look at my program before I turn it in. The job was to code a program in java that adds two integers to an array gather the sum while displaying the integers ...
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Implementing String to int (atoi) in Java
The function first discards as many whitespace characters as necessary until the first non-whitespace character is found. Then, starting from this character, takes an optional initial plus or minus ...
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Integer to binary using an old-school way
I know I could achieve this using System.out.println(Integer.toBinaryString(num)); in Java. However, I wanted to do it this way.
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Create the English word for a number
I cobbled together a function from various sources that takes an integer and returns it as its respective English word formatted as a string. The function is as follows:
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Cookie Clicker esque game idea
I am making a cookie clicker type game as a small project, within Xcode, written in Swift. I have a been developing a function which will turn a Int64() into a 4 ...
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2answers
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Hamming distance between numbers in JavaScript
In Leetcode it states that my runtime is only faster than 38% all of submitted JavaScript solutions. Is there anything I can change to make it more efficient?
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Scala implicit conversion to add methods to Int
I started learning Scala, and like most functional languages, things get messy pretty quickly for a beginner.
Here I have built a wrapper class for Ints so that I ...
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Format an Unsigned Byte to a Three ASCII Digits
I'm working on a game for the Atari VCS and have been dusting off my 30+ year old skills in writing MOS 6502 assembly language.
The VCS runs at 1.19 MHz and is based on a MOS 6507 chip with some ...
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Finding the largest prime factor of a 12 digit number [closed]
I created this using C++ and this gives the largest prime factor of a number.But my problem is if I try to find the largest prime factor of a very large number (12 digit number) it gives an error or ...
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Convert a boxed integer to an nullable integer with potentially different type
Given a boxed integer (with a boxed short, int, ...) I want to convert it to an unboxed, nullable type instead. It should be ...
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Numeric parser for integers, big integers, and doubles
I have written the following numeric parser. It may not be as fast as Boost's lexical_cast, nor as convenient, but it does get the job done and it does look good. I'...
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3answers
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Endianness conversion in C
I have written a simple C header for converting the endianness of short integers and long integers. It uses the GCC macro ...
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3answers
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Convert a numeric string to number but without python's built in function
I'd like to get a code review and some insights of whether I chose a good way to do this. What would other, clever ways look like.
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Implementation of C Standard Library Function ntohl()
This is an implementation of ntohl() that I wrote as an exercise. ntohl() takes a uint32_t ...
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1answer
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From a string of 3 numbers to 3 integers
I'm solving some puzzles to learn Rust. A problem I faced is to turn a string of 3 integers into 3 integers. I succeeded with the following example:
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Storing angles with overflow errors
Rather than checking if my angle is in the range of 0 to 2pi every time it gets set, I got the idea to store it as an unsigned short with 0xFFFF being +2pi, thus the standard overflow behavior for ...
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Enforcing correct input/output of integers
The problem:
Some types, like cstdint aliases or, at least purely theoretically, even std::size_t, may be (but don’t have to be)...
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Counting the number of “on” bits in an int
Here is some code I wrote as a solution to Programming Exercise 15.3 in Stephen Prata's C Primer Plus, 6th Edition. It is probably worth pointing out that the title of the chapter is Bit Fiddling. The ...
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Number representation for a calculator that works with very big numbers
I'm a beginner: I have learned concepts and features which I think I need in my project, but this is my first serious program and it is my internship project. I'm totally confused and need help to ...
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Maximum product of 3 integers in an int array using Python - follow up
This is a follow up to Maximum product of 3 integers in an int array using Python
Changes to the code include renamed variables for improved readability and I added more test cases.
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Maximum product of 3 integers in an int array using Python
This is an interview question from Interview Cake:
Given a list_of_ints, find the highest_product you can get from three of the integers.
The input list_of_ints will always have at least three ...
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Construct: VarInt integer encoding
This code is part of the Construct library. Docstrings explain what the code is supposed to do.
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Using strtol() follow up
Link to original question: Successful use of strtol() in C
After getting excellent feedback from the code review community I attempted to redo my string to long conversion program! I believe I ...
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Program to determine ranges of char, short, int and long variables, both signed and unsigned
I wrote code to determinate ranges of char,short int and long variables,both signed and unsigned.Please help me to improve my code :) Here is the code:
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Successful use of strtol() in C
Attempted to use strtol() to parse a string into an integer and to output any appropriate error messages for failed conversions. How did I do? How could/should it ...
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Converting a bytearray into an integer
I am working on a program to decode MMS PDU files. They are binary files and I am reading them byte by byte and decoding each header value as I come to it.
One header value is the Date, and it's ...
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Integer-to-ASCII algorithm (x86 assembly)
This is my best effort at converting a 32 bit integer in EAX, to an 8 character ascii string (result in RDI). It will work ...
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Dividing Negative integer ranges
Context:
My project has a hand-rolled ORM (... yeah ... I know) ...
built around the MS DataSet objects that represent wrapped collections of rows of DBtables (... yeah ... I know) ...
and which ...
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2answers
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Converting bits to decimal (integer) string is so slow
I am implementing myself a BigInteger class. It can natively handle very very big digits in very short time.
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Finding shortest sequences of integers whose product is larger than n
Here is the task:
For an integer n, return a list of the k length integers sequences whose product is larger than n but as close to n as possible (i.e. smallest larger than n number), and whose ...
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Translating binary data from a file into a very large base-ten integer
I'm making an experimental Java algorithm that translates binary data from a file into a (very large) base ten integer. I am using BigInteger since this number may ...
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Valid memory address in Python
I am looking for suggestions of improving this function to check whether a memory address is appropriate or not.
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Adding two binary-coded-decimal numbers
I want to make some VHDL code open source. But before I do, I want to make sure that it is as readable as possible. Things to improve upon could for example be naming and the use of comments.
The ...
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Bit twiddling utils for Int and Long classes
I added some bit twiddling utils to Int and Long classes in Scala but I have highly duplicated code. Is there a way to DRY this?
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Variable length integer encoding in Java
I have coded up the variable length integer encoding aka VLQ in Java. It works with any base in (1, 128]. I've implemented the usual encode/decode methods and also ...
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Number class to add/compare different kinds of numbers
I am creating a Number class having Integer and Fraction derive class which add/compare different kinds of numbers. In addition, the caller need not needs to know ...
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Dividing a long (arbitrary-precision) number by an integer
As part of a (slightly) larger program, I needed to write a function that could take an arbitrarily large number and divide it by a small number. In this program, I will be dividing this number ...
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Convert NSInteger into NSString
This is my sample code to convert a integer into string.
Is it very costly to do the multiple loops of [NSMutableString stringWithFormat:..]?
I.e should I just use appendString and get the NSString ...
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itoa base function in C
This is a function that converts an integer value to a null-terminated string using the specified base and stores the result in a char array that I must allocate (...
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1answer
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Avoiding “warning: Use of uninitialized value” when fetching an integer CGI parameter
I was using this code to fetch a CGI parameter:
$page = int(param('page'));
This sometimes results in:
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1answer
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Normalize integer types to float range
I wrote two template functions to take an integer type and output a float in the given range. One function takes signed integers and the other takes unsigned ...
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Merge and sorting arrays of String and int in more efficient methods
Are there better methods for merge and sorting arrays of int and String in more efficient methods both time-complexity wise and ...
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Handling GetTickCount() overflow in timeouts
This is code which must run on XP, so no GetTickCount64, and which should correctly handle the value wrapping around after 49 days. Can it be improved?
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