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Converting between Bases

In total, we saw that:

$2619_{10} = 2048 + 512 + 32 + 16 + 8 + 2 + 1 = 2^{11} + 2^9 + 2^5 + 2^4 + 2^3 + 2^1 + 2^0$

Now that we know what powers of $2$ 'go' into $2619_{10}$, we can write the string out.

If a power of $2$ was 'present' in the calculation (e.g., $11$), then we append the bit $1$ to the string. If, conversely, a power of $2$ was unused in the calculation (e.g., we didn't use $2^{10}$,) we add the bit $0$ to the string. We keep adding these bits from left to right.

As such, since the bits we've seen are $11, 9, 5, 4, 3, 1,$ and $0$, these are the only bits in our string that will be $1$: everything else will be $0$. Our resulting string of bits is:

$101000111011_2$

Conclusion: $2619_{10}$ is $101000111011_2$ in base 2.