dec2base (MathScript Function) (Windows, Not in Base Package)

LabVIEW 8.5 Help
August 2007

NI Part Number:
371361D-01

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Member of the string class.

Syntax

d = dec2base(a, b)

d = dec2base(a, b, c)

Converts a decimal number to a base b number represented by a string.

Name	Description
a	Specifies a decimal number. a is an integer between 0 and 2^52-1. LabVIEW rounds a if a is not an integer.
b	Specifies the base to which you want to convert a. b can be any integer between 2 and 36.
c	Controls the number of digits in d. If d has fewer than c digits, LabVIEW pads the beginning of d with zeros. c is an integer.

Name	Description
d	Returns a base b number equivalent to a with at least c digits. The base b notation uses the following digits: 0, 1, ... , 9, A, B, ... , Z. d is a string.

A = 2562525
D = dec2base(A, 36)