Added functions to check for palindromes and convert nums to bin strings

src/main/java/mattrixwv/Algorithms.java

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 //JavaClasses/src/main/java/mattrixwv/Algorithms.java
 //Matthew Ellison
 // Created: 03-02-19
-//Modified: 06-01-21
+//Modified: 06-29-21
 //This class holds many algorithms that I have found it useful to keep around
 //As such all of the functions in here are static and meant to be used as stand alone functions
 /*
@@ -945,4 +945,27 @@ public class Algorithms{
 	public static long findNumOccurrence(String str, char c){
 		return str.chars().filter(ch -> ch == c).count();
 	}
+	//Returns true if the string passed in is a palindrome
+	public static boolean isPalindrome(String str){
+		String rev = new StringBuilder(str).reverse().toString();
+		if(str.equals(rev)){
+			return true;
+		}
+		else{
+			return false;
+		}
+	}
+	//Converts a number to its binary equivalent
+	public static String toBin(int num){
+		//Convert the number to a binary string
+		return Integer.toBinaryString(num);
+	}
+	public static String toBin(long num){
+		//Convert the number to binary string
+		return Long.toBinaryString(num);
+	}
+	public static String toBin(BigInteger num){
+		//Conver the number to binary string
+		return num.toString(2);
+	}
 }