Introduction
In computer science, bit flipping is a technique used to manipulate individual bits of data. In this challenge, we will be flipping one bit from 0 to 1 to maximize the longest sequence of 1s.
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In computer science, bit flipping is a technique used to manipulate individual bits of data. In this challenge, we will be flipping one bit from 0 to 1 to maximize the longest sequence of 1s.
Given a binary number, we need to flip one of its bits from 0 to 1 to maximize the longest sequence of 1s. For example, if we have the binary number 000011110000
, we can flip the fourth bit from 0 to 1 to get 000111110000
, which has a sequence of five 1s. Our goal is to write a Python function that takes in a binary number and returns the length of the longest sequence of 1s after flipping one bit.
The requirements for our Python function are as follows:
Here are some examples of how our Python function should behave:
None
-> Exception11111111111111111111111111111111
-> 3200000000000000000000000000000000
-> 100001111110111011111001111110000
-> 10In this challenge, we learned how to flip one bit from 0 to 1 to maximize the longest sequence of 1s in a binary number. We also wrote a Python function that takes in a binary number and returns the length of the longest sequence of 1s after flipping one bit.