JavaScript: Hexadecimal number to binary equivalent

JavaScript Math: Exercise-74 with Solution

Hexadecimal to Binary Conversion

Write a JavaScript program to convert a hexadecimal number to its binary equivalent (as a string).

From Wikipedia –
In mathematics and computing, the hexadecimal (also base-16 or simply hex) numeral system is a positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of 16. Unlike the decimal system representing numbers using 10 symbols, hexadecimal uses 16 distinct symbols, most often the symbols "0"–"9" to represent values 0 to 9, and "A"–"F" (or alternatively "a"–"f") to represent values from 10 to 15.
A binary number is a number expressed in the base-2 numeral system or binary numeral system, a method of mathematical expression which uses only two symbols: typically "0" (zero) and "1" (one).

Test Data:
("7B316") -> "1111011001100010110"
("6F16") -> "110111100010110"
("4B2A16") -> "10010110010101000010110"

Sample Solution:

JavaScript Code:

/**
 * Converts a hexadecimal number to its binary representation.
 * @param {string} n - The hexadecimal number to convert.
 * @returns {string} - The binary representation of the hexadecimal number.
 */
function test(n){
    // Parse the hexadecimal number to an integer, then convert it to binary and pad it with leading zeros to ensure it has 8 digits
    return (parseInt(n, 16).toString(2)).padStart(8, '0');
}

// Test the function with different hexadecimal numbers
console.log(test("7B316"));  
console.log(test("6F16"));   
console.log(test("4B2A16"));

Output:

1111011001100010110
110111100010110
10010110010101000010110

Flowchart:

Live Demo:

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For more Practice: Solve these Related Problems:

• Write a JavaScript function that converts a hexadecimal number to binary by mapping each hex digit to its 4-bit binary equivalent.
• Write a JavaScript function that iterates through a hexadecimal string, converting each character to binary, and concatenates the result.
• Write a JavaScript function that validates a hexadecimal input before performing the conversion to binary.
• Write a JavaScript function that handles both uppercase and lowercase hexadecimal digits during conversion to binary.

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