Given a binary input that represents binary representation of positive number n, find binary representation of n-1. It may be assumed that input binary number is greater than 0.
The binary input may or may not fit even in unsigned long long int.
Examples:
Input : 10110 Output : 10101 Here n = (22)10 = (10110)2Previous number = (21)10 = (10101)2 Input : 11000011111000000 Output : 11000011110111111
We store input as string so that large numbers can be handled. We traverse the string from rightmost character and convert all 0’s to 1’s until we find a 1. Finally convert the found 1 to 0. The number so formed after this process is the required number. If input is “1”, then previous number will be “0”. If only the first character in the entire string is ‘1’, then we discard this character and change all the 0’s to 1’s.
Implementation:
Binary representation of previous number = 10101
Time Complexity: O(n) where n is number of bits in input.
Auxiliary Space: O(n)