Question

Is there a way to express any given number as a linear combination of powers of 2 and figure out the coefficients of each term of the linear combination?

Answer 1

Yes, any positive number can be represented as a linear combination of powers of 2 where the coefficients are either 0 or 1. This is called writing a number in base 2.

Answer 2

Yes exactly thank you.. at the time of posting this problem here I couldn't pinpoint what I used to do a long time ago resembled what I was doing just just then.. Thanks for reminding me!