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# mathtools.binary_string

`abjad.tools.mathtools.` `binary_string`(n)

  Return the base-2 representation of positive integer n as a string.

      abjad> mathtools.binary_string(5)
      '101'

      abjad> for n in range(1, 17):
      ...     print '\t%s\t%s' % (n, mathtools.binary_string(n))
      ...
         1  1
         2  10
         3  11
         4  100
         5  101
         6  110
         7  111
         8  1000
         9  1001
         10 1010
         11 1011
         12 1100
         13 1101
         14 1110
         15 1111
         16 10000

  Note

  `mathtools.binary_string(n)` will deprecate when Abjad migrates to Python 2.6.

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