Formatting BaseForm Output
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg39133] Formatting BaseForm Output
- From: "Ersek, Ted R" <ErsekTR at navair.navy.mil>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:07:40 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Evaluate the following in Mathematica
In[1]:=
BaseForm[3914, 16]
and the output looks like (f4a with 16 for a subscript).
What if you wanted the output above formatted as one of the following
0xf4a, 0x0f4a, 0xF4A, 0x0F4A which are often used by programmers.
As far as I can tell it isn't possible to do that using BaseForm options
(there are none), MakeBoxes or Format definitions. I could, without too
much
trouble, make my own function HexForm[n] that would compute the hex digits
and format the output. It would just be more elegant to use the built-in
BaseForm if possible.
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Thanks,
Ted Ersek