DEC2BIN DEC2BIN Convert Decimal to Binary String Usage Converts an integer to a binary string. The syntax for its use is y = dec2bin(x,n) where x is the positive integer, and n is the number of bits to use in the representation. Alternately, if you leave n unspecified, y = dec2bin(x) the minimum number of bits needed to represent x are used. If x is a vector, then the resulting y is a character matrix.