Convert a binary number, represented as a string (e.g. '101010'), to its decimal equivalent using first principles.
Implement binary to decimal conversion. Given a binary input string, your program should produce a decimal output. The program should handle invalid inputs.
- Implement the conversion yourself. Do not use something else to perform the conversion for you.
Decimal is a base-10 system.
A number 23 in base 10 notation can be understood as a linear combination of powers of 10:
- The rightmost digit gets multiplied by 10^0 = 1
- The next number gets multiplied by 10^1 = 10
- ...
- The nth number gets multiplied by 10^(n-1).
- All these values are summed.
So: 23 => 2*10^1 + 3*10^0 => 2*10 + 3*1 = 23 base 10
Binary is similar, but uses powers of 2 rather than powers of 10.
So: 101 => 1*2^2 + 0*2^1 + 1*2^0 => 1*4 + 0*2 + 1*1 => 4 + 1 => 5 base 10.
To run the tests, run the command dotnet test from within the exercise directory.
Initially, only the first test will be enabled. This is to encourage you to solve the exercise one step at a time.
Once you get the first test passing, remove the Skip property from the next test and work on getting that test passing.
Once none of the tests are skipped and they are all passing, you can submit your solution
using exercism submit Binary.cs
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