When the output is text, the conversion is done inside Javascript, where the floating point number stays in the 64 bit space. That produces a correct string result. 

The JS actor outputs as integer by default, connect it to a text actor to mutate the output to text. 

Best Michel

Michel discovered an interesting bug in his actor that converts to binary, and I wanted to leave a record of it here.

He tried to convert the number 290 to binary, which should be 100100010. But the output shows 100100018.

Inside the actor, this is being processed as a 32 bit floating point value. But 100100010 cannot be correctly represented by a 32 bit float.

This site shows you why.

You can see that closest value to 100100010 is 10010008. Thus the error.

In Isadora 3 we use 64 bit floats, and so you won't see this problem until the number gets much larger once you're using that version. But, suffice to say, there is a limit even with 64 bit floating point numbers.

Best Wishes,
Mark

Cheers,

HY

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It works perfectly!
I hope I understand German; the video described so beautifully.

Will share with you that I use Isadora to control a turntable! 
The actor you wrote which is for the position the 360 degrees of the turntable. Without this actor, I need to type in the binary numbers manually. This actor improved the workflow very much!

I used to ask the turntable engineer to includes this code in their system, but they didn't. Now I luckily improved my coding skill.

Thank you again! 

HY

Just because we are talking about binary here. 

I found a video on youtube explaining binary, its in german but I guess even just the pictures explain it without understanding the language. Its the best I have seen.

if you don't understand German start watching from 1min 12seconds.

best clemens

Well the problem with the modified patch is that its limited to output 9 numbers only, the first number gets chopped off. You have to go into the JavaScript actor and change (-9) to (-10).

Best Michel

what am I missing?

and some other actors that will already decode the bits and output them as 0/1 or on/off

best clemens

dec_binary_ck.izz

Is it possible to program it to keep export 9 numbers? say 0 = 000000000, 1 = 100000000, 359 = 111001101

Please correct me if I am wrong!

And is there any way that to transfer the number to text? so I can chop the number that I want to send to other actors? It appear differently with number to text actor.

Thank you again!

Wishes,

HY

Sorry my fault. I replaced the file above, please download again.

Best Michel

But my version is 2.61, how can I get newer version? ~@@~

HY

Here you go. decimalToBinary.izz

Best Michel