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Convert to Hexadecimal

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Challenge

Write a program that takes in a number greater than or equal to 0 and outputs its representation in hexadecimal (base 16).


Examples

0     => 0
1     => 1
10    => A
15    => F
16    => 10
107   => 6B
153   => 99
207   => CF
1000  => 3E8
10381 => 288D
48821 => BEB5

Rules

  • No built-in hexadecimal functions.
    • More generally, any base conversion function is considered to be disallowed.
  • Letters can be uppercase or lowercase.
  • It should work at least for all inputs greater than 0 up to the language's default type limit.
  • Leading zeros in the output is fine. (i.e. 000003E8 for 32-bit numbers)
  • This is [code-golf], so shortest code wins.
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3 comment threads

Does zero input need to be handled? (1 comment)
Input in integer type? (5 comments)
What defines a "Hexadecimal function"? Is it strictly a `toHex` function? Is `.toString(16)` banned? ... (6 comments)
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Python 3.8 (pre-release), 70 bytes

-1 bytes using default arg & -1 bytes using >>= (thanks trichoplax)

def h(n,a=''):
 while n>0:a="0123456789ABCDEF"[n%16]+a;n>>=4
 return a

Try it online!

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2 comment threads

Reversal when using += (2 comments)
Default parameter (1 comment)
Reversal when using +=
trichoplax‭ wrote about 1 year ago

Looks like using a+= rather than +a results in the output being reversed, so the outputs longer than 1 digit fail the test cases.

trichoplax‭ wrote about 1 year ago

There is another byte to be saved though, thanks to a trick used in a JavaScript answer to this challenge:

In JavaScript (and in Python too), you can write //=16 as >>=4 (bitshifting rather than floor dividing). It works similarly for multiplying or floor dividing by any power of 2. In JavaScript it won't work past the size limit of a 32 bit signed integer, but in Python arbitrary size integers are used even for bitwise operations.