I'll say, but keep in mind that this approach is more concise and efficient than your method, especially for larger numbers.

Wow... that's insane

You are right. I know you are not supposed to 'invent the wheel again' but this exercise is great to learn algorithmic thinking and complex concepts like recursion.

I think it's better to use this space to do what you wanted to do at first. This is a great exercise to understand and practice algorithms and recursion

yeah that's the way she goes sometimes. i do these challenges just to nail into my brain the kinds of built in functions you can use, because I hate doing what you did and realizing I spent so much time for no reason. A good rule of thumb is that for 7/8 kyu problems, you generally don't have to reinvent any wheels.

I think it would have been better if you had tried to get to the algorithm properly. You would have learned more. Using the solution is good when you already know how to get to the solution.

A little disappointing to see that there is already a solution to the problem. Surely that function uses the same algorithms that we are supposed to write. But using this solution takes away all the fun from the problem. It's literally like writing a "hello world." The only value of the kata itself is having discovered that this function exists, I guess.

i spent an hour trying to use logarithms and weird stuff to manually turn decimal to binary the way i would with pen and paper before i remembered you could just do this... im gonna cry

Amazing bro ! Best Practise

Could you please share the link where I can read more about this solution)

google is one of the most important developer tools :)

Amaizing! Thanks.

I use the way of math, this function could convert it to binary. Amazing!😲