Question

I need to convert a signed decimal number into a 32 bit little-endian binary value. Does anyone by any chance know of a built-in Java class or function that can do this? Or have built one to do this?

The data is a longtitude/latitude value like -78.3829. Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

If it helps at all, here’s a class that I made that converts longs to binary Strings and binary Strings to longs:

public class toBinary {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(decimalToBinary(16317));
        System.out.println(binaryToDecimal("11111111111111111111111111111111111100101001"));
    }

    public static long binaryToDecimal(String bin) {
        long result = 0;
        int len = bin.length();
        for(int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
            result += Integer.parseInt(bin.charAt(i) +  "") * Math.pow(2, len - i - 1);
        }
        return result;
    }

    public static String decimalToBinary(long num) {
        String result = "";
        while(true) {
            result += num % 2;
            if(num < 2)
                break;
            num = num / 2;
        }
        for(int i = result.length(); i < 32; i++)
            result += "0";
        result = reverse(result);
        result = toLittleEndian(result);
        return result;
    }

    public static String toLittleEndian(String str) {
        String result = "";
        result += str.substring(24);
        result += str.substring(16, 24);
        result += str.substring(8, 16);
        result += str.substring(0, 8);
        return result;
    }

    public static String reverse(String str) {
        String result = "";
        for(int i = str.length() - 1; i >= 0; i--)
            result += str.charAt(i);
        return result;
    }

}

It doesn’t take decimal values, but it could probably give you a bit of guidance.