Method to Generate Binary Numbers

Given a number n, write a function that generates and prints all binary numbers with decimal values from 1 to n.

Examples:

Input: n = 2
Output: 1, 10

Input: n = 5
Output: 1, 10, 11, 100, 101

A simple method is to run a loop from 1 to n, call decimal to binary inside the loop.

Generate binary number

Following is an interesting method that uses queue data structure to print binary numbers.

1) Create an empty queue of strings
2) Enqueue the first binary number “1” to queue.
3) Now run a loop for generating and printing n binary numbers.
a) Dequeue and Print the front of queue.
b) Append “0” at the end of front item and enqueue it.
c) Append “1” at the end of front item and enqueue it.

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Python Programming Method to Generate Binary Numbers

# Python program to generate binary numbers from 
# 1 to n 
 
# This function uses queu data structure to print binary numbers
def generatePrintBinary(n):
     
    # Create an empty queue
    from Queue import Queue
    q = Queue()
     
    # Enqueu the first binary number
    q.put("1")
 
    # This loop is like BFS of a tree with 1 as root
    # 0 as left child and 1 as right child and so on
    while(n>0):
        n-= 1
        # Print the front of queue
        s1 = q.get() 
        print s1 
     
        s2 = s1 # Store s1 before changing it
     
        # Append "0" to s1 and enqueue it
        q.put(s1+"0")
 
        # Append "1" to s2 and enqueue it. Note that s2
        # contains the previous front
        q.put(s2+"1")
     
 
# Driver program to test above function
n = 10
generatePrintBinary(n)

Output:

1
10
11
100
101
110
111
1000
1001
1010
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