Negative base numbers

Negative base numbers is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

Negative base numbers are an alternatively way to encode numbers without the need for a minus sign. Various negative bases may be used including negadecimal (base -10), negabinary (-2) and negaternary (-3).

Task

• Encode the decimal number 10 as negabinary
• Encode the decimal number 146 as negaternary (expect 21102)
• Encode the decimal number 15 as negadecimal (expect 195)
• In each of the above cases, convert the encoded number back to decimal.

Python

<lang python>#!/bin/python from __future__ import print_function

def EncodeNegBase(n, b): #Converts from decimal if n == 0: return "0" out = [] while n != 0: n, rem = divmod(n, b) if rem < 0: n += 1 rem -= b out.append(rem) return "".join(map(str, out[::-1]))

def DecodeNegBase(nstr, b): #Converts to decimal if nstr == "0": return 0

total = 0 for i, ch in enumerate(nstr[::-1]): total += int(ch) * b**i return total

if __name__=="__main__":

print ("Encode 10 as negabinary (expect 11110)") result = EncodeNegBase(10, -2) print (result) if DecodeNegBase(result, -2) == 10: print ("Converted back to decimal") else: print ("Error converting back to decimal")

print ("Encode 146 as negaternary (expect 21102)") result = EncodeNegBase(146, -3) print (result) if DecodeNegBase(result, -3) == 146: print ("Converted back to decimal") else: print ("Error converting back to decimal")

print ("Encode 15 as negadecimal (expect 195)") result = EncodeNegBase(15, -10) print (result) if DecodeNegBase(result, -10) == 15: print ("Converted back to decimal") else: print ("Error converting back to decimal")</lang>

Output:

Encode 10 as negabinary (expect 11110)
11110
Converted back to decimal
Encode 146 as negaternary (expect 21102)
21102
Converted back to decimal
Encode 15 as negadecimal (expect 195)
195
Converted back to decimal