In my computer science class we are doing a compression exercise of a person age grade gender and gpa in an unsigned 16 bit integer.

? Least six significant digit represent GPA, where 100100 (3610)represents a GPA of 3.6 (36/10).
? Bit 7 is used to represent gender, where a 0 is ‘F’ and a 1 is ‘M’.
? Bits 11-8 are used to represent the student’s grade.
? Bits 16-12 are used to represent students’s age.

Under this scheme, the binary number 0110110001100110 represents a student who is 13 years old, is in the 8h grade, male and has a GPA of 3.8 (38/10).

I have everything done but the gender part because gender is Mm/Ff and I can't figure out how to take a text input. I just need that and if gender = M or m then I just need to add 64 to the encoded number.

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I can't get this new search figured out. I searched but I only somehow found the old closed one.

Closed as requested. Glad you figured it out.