Python/conversions/decimal_to_octal.py

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"""Convert a Decimal Number to an Octal Number."""
import math
# Modified from:
# https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Javascript/blob/master/Conversions/DecimalToOctal.js
def decimal_to_octal(num):
"""Convert a Decimal Number to an Octal Number."""
octal = 0
counter = 0
while num > 0:
remainder = num % 8
octal = octal + (remainder * math.pow(10, counter))
counter += 1
num = math.floor(num / 8) # basically /= 8 without remainder if any
# This formatting removes trailing '.0' from `octal`.
return'{0:g}'.format(float(octal))
def main():
"""Print octal equivelents of decimal numbers."""
print("\n2 in octal is:")
print(decimal_to_octal(2)) # = 2
print("\n8 in octal is:")
print(decimal_to_octal(8)) # = 10
print("\n65 in octal is:")
print(decimal_to_octal(65)) # = 101
print("\n216 in octal is:")
print(decimal_to_octal(216)) # = 330
print("\n512 in octal is:")
print(decimal_to_octal(512)) # = 1000
print("\n")
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()