How to convert float number to Binary?

Question

Can anyone please tell me how can I convert this float number: 12.25 to binary? I know how to convert the \"12\" but not the 0.25

Any help is much appreciated. Thank

Answer 1

x = float(raw_input("enter number between 0 and 1: "))

p = 0
while ((2**p)*x) %1 != 0:
    p += 1
    # print p

    num = int (x * (2 ** p))
    # print num

    result = ''
    if num == 0:
        result = '0'
    while num > 0:
        result = str(num%2) + result
        num = num / 2

    for i in range (p - len(result)):
        result = '0' + result
    result = result[0:-p] + '.' + result[-p:]

print result #this will print result for the decimal portion