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Re: Inverse of IntegerDigits? and "Index" function?

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  • Subject: [mg4006] Re: [mg3922] Inverse of IntegerDigits? and "Index" function?
  • From: Robert Pratt <rpratt at math.unc.edu>
  • Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 02:39:18 -0400
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

The following function, using Mma's built-in Table command, gives an 
inverse for IntegerToDigits.

DigitsToInteger[x_, n_]:=
	Apply[Plus, Table[Reverse[x][[i]]*n^(i-1), {i, 1, Length[x]}]]

Rob Pratt
Department of Mathematics
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB# 3250, 331 Phillips Hall
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3250

rpratt at math.unc.edu

On Fri, 10 May 1996 pehowland at taz.dra.hmg.gb wrote:

> 
> Excuse me if I'm being particularly inept this morning, but can anyone offer
> any help on the following problems please?
> 
> Inverse of IntegerDigits
> ========================
> I'm playing around with some binary numbers, and am using IntegerDigits
> to convert from a decimal integer to the binary notation.  eg.
> 	In[1]:=	IntegerDigits[10,2]
> 	Out[1]=	{1,0,1,0}
> 
> What is the function to convert back? eg. I want to do
> 	In[2]:=	DigitsToInteger[{1,0,1,0},2]
> and get
> 	Out[2]= 10
> I've scoured the manual and can't find the function.  This led me to
> try to write my own function, which identified another problem...
> 
> "Index" Function
> ================
> Writing a function to convert back is easy in principle, eg.
>   
>  DigitsToInteger[x_,n_] := Apply[Plus[Map[(#*n^(Index[#]-1))&, Reverse[x]]]]
> 
> would do the trick, but I seem to require a function, that I've called
> Index[] here, that when Map[]'d across a list returns the position of
> each element.  Thus I want a function that works as follows:
> 
>  	In[3]:=	Map[Index[#]&, {2,6,3,9,10,2,4}]
> 	Out[3]= {1,2,3,4,5,6,7}
> 
> But I can't seem to find this function either!
> 
> For the moment I'm using the following more Fortran-like function, which
> works, but disturbs my sensibilities:
>  
>  DigitsToInteger[x_,n_] :=
>     Module[{int=0, l},
>             l = Reverse[x];
>             Do  [int = int + 2^(i-1)*l[[i]],
>                  {i, Length[i]}
>                 ];
>             int
>           ]
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
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