Have to convert Integer to binary - matlab

Question

I'm writing a user-defined function to convert integers to binary. The largest number that could be converted with the function should be a binary number with
16 1 s. If a larger number is entered as d, the function should display an error
message. With my code, I'm trying to add the numbers 0 or 1 to my vector x based on the remainder, then I want to reverse my final vector to display a number in binary. Here's what I have:
function [b] = bina(d)
% Bina is a function that converts integers to binary
x = [];
y = 2;
in = d/2;
if d >=(2^16 -1)
fprintf('This number is too big')
else
while in > 1
if in >= 1
r = rem(in,y);
x = [x r]
end
end
end
end

Answer 1

As you insist on a loop:
x = [];
y = 2;
in = d;
if d >=(2^16 -1)
fprintf('This number is too big')
else
ii = 1;
while in > 0
r = logical(rem(in,y^ii));
x = [r x];
in = in - r*2^(ii-1);
ii = ii+1;
end
end
b = x;
You had the right ideas, but you need to update the variables in your while-loop with every iteration. This is mainly in, where you need to subtract the remainder. And just store the binary remainders in your variable x.
You can check your result with
x = double( dec2bin(d, 16) ) - 48
You could also use a for loop, by pre-calculating the number of iterations with
find( d < 2.^(1:16),1)
and then
if d >=(2^16 -1)
fprintf('This number is too big')
else
for ii = 1:find( d < 2.^(1:16),1)
r = logical(rem(in,y^ii));
x = [r x];
in = in - r*2^(ii-1)
end
end