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I thought this was straightforward.
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The task description is a mess. The task giver uses words like "decimal number", "digits" and "conversion" way too liberally. From what explanations are given on this page, the task should be better described as: take an integer, and write out a string consisting of 0s and 1s that represent the number in base 2. And the claim "some languages don't require conversion" is bunk, again due to the lack of clear definition of the words involved. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 23:55, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
:I used the term "decimal integer", which I thought was straightforward. The intention was to provide a function or procedure that takes a decimal integer and outputs the binary digits. For example: print tobinary(5) gives output 101, where 5 is a decimal value, and the output would be 101 in binary digits. The word "decimal" here is to indicate that the input value is in base 10. I don't know why "digits" is causing confusion. The word "conversion" does not appear in the task description. [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 19:04, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
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