Questions tagged [binary]
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Why ImportByteArray when generate image from bytes
I was trying to generate an image from a list of bytes so I only had to Import an Image once as I want to store a Base64Encoded ...
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Does NumericArray always maintain data unmodified?
Suppose that we create a NumericArray using a LibraryLink function, then pass this to another one. Is NumericArray guaranteed to maintain the binary data as it was ...
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Read NumericArray from a file
Suppose I have a binary file which consists of a list of integer or real numbers. Let's say signed 8-bit integers; so each byte of the file is a single such integer. How can I read it and turn it into ...
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Something is wrong with the implementation of the ThueMorse function
While trying to answer this Math.SE question, I believe I found several bugs in Mathematica and Alpha relating to the Thue-Morse sequence.
As a quick reminder, the $n^{\rm th}$ element of the Thue-...
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BitNot does not flip bits in the way I expected
Can anyone explain why the last result in these statements is not the bit-flipped version of arr?
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How to import a binary data generated by Fortran? [closed]
I have a unformatted binary data file generated by gfortran. However, when the binary data is imported by Mathematica, a correct result is not obtained.
This is my fortran code:
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Listing all monotone increasing binary digits
For $n=5$, I have $32$ binary digits and for this there are $2^{32}$ combinations. Out of this many, the interesting ones (i.e., the ones that have monotone increasing binary digits) are only about "$...
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Number of contiguous ones of an element in a 2d binary array
I have a 2d binary array of 0s and 1s. I select an element and would like to know how many 1s are in the contiguous cluster that includes the selected point. If the selected element is 0, the answer ...
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Using the binary search algorithm in a sorted grid
I want to get a mathematica code for binary search algorithm applied to a sorted grid containing integers.
For example, given
f[k_,x_]= x^2 + k x + k - 2
where <...
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How to read this dataset with .dat and .r64 files?
I stumbled upon the European Data Incubator project, and wanted to play around with some of their data. I'm trying to open this dataset, which contains a bunch of ...
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Converting hex string to ByteArray
With blockchain support, it should finally become straightforward to convert string hashes to ByteArray, but I still can't figure out the canonical Wolfram way of ...
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Generate a prime number in a range with fixed $n$ most significant bits
I'm new to Mathematica so my question might be trivial.
How do I generate a $200-bit$ prime with the condition that the 10 most significant bits in its binary representation are equal to some binary ...
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How to total the amount of zeros in a binary matrix
I have a 150 by 300 binary matrix. I would like to find the total amount of zeros in the matrix. I've been consulting online documentation for support, but am unable to use the "count" function ...
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Efficiently transform sequentially generated integer matrices into boolean matrices
Assume you have a list of 5 numbers, eg L = {14, 7, 11, 14, 0};.
Now, what you want to do with this list, is to transform each entry into eg a binary list, using <...
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Is it possible to convert the output of the Encrypt[] function into binary digits?
I use the following code to generate a key and then use it to encrypt a simple string message. The output of the function Encrypt is an encrypted object. But I would rather convert this into binary ...
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The binary of negative integer number
I have a question about the binary of negative integer number in Mathematica.
In most implementations, negative signed integers are stored in what is called two's complement. The other major way of ...
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Convert Negative Integers into Signed Binary?
I'm relatively new to Mathematica and have been struggling with this problem for several days.
I have a string of integer data, ranging from -2044 to 2044. So this looks something like {-2044,-2040,-...
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Convert characters to binary?
I can get a binary representation of characters as follows:
BaseForm[ToCharacterCode["A"], 2]
However, that produces a weird binary code object that might be ...
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How to find the sum for each individual row in a binary matrix until the first zero is reached from left to right.
I have a 150 by 300 binary matrix. I would like to sum the 1's for each individual row (from left to right) until the first zero is encountered. For example, if a given row is 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 ...
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Substitute some 1s with 0s in random list
How is it better to substitute list of random combination of 1 and 0 (binary image) so that only first (or central) instance of 1 left in each group.
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Printing binary numbers with extra zeros
I have the numbers $0-64$ in binary and want them all to be displayed with 8 figures.
Expected output:
$5_{10} = 101_2$ should become 00000101.
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Binary Image Size after import
I have a lot of binary images I would like to import into mathematica.
Each of them is 132kB (1024x1024) big. Like the following:
As soon as I import it into Mathematica however and call ByteCount[...
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Export 1bit Image
I have a binary image like the following one:
How can I export it as an 1bit image instead of an 8bit one?
If I export it in tiff it automatically becomes an 8bit one.
Best,
Max
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How to find all binary numbers with the kth =0 and smaller than 2^n?
I have been stuck in this problem for a long time.
I need to find a general code to collect all binary numbers which are at most n digits (<2^(n-1)) with the ...
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Decoding GZIP encoded Body, BodyBytes (ByteArray) and BodyBytesArray from URLRead
When calling the Stack Exchange API v2.2 using the new (Mma11) function URLRead we get a GZIP encoded Body in alternative formats: ...
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Performance-driven approach to using Big Data without killing the hard-drive
Situation
A calculation has to be done in which the amount of data is too much to fit into memory. Fortunately, only a part of the overall data set has to be known at a time. The preprocessing is ...
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Generate a list of randomly distributed $1$s and $0$s with fixed proportion of $1$s [duplicate]
I need to simulate a random initial state of an 1D cellular automaton, but with different 'densities' of filled cells.
Let's say the size of the list is $N$, then I need to be able to fix a number $P$...
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Reading a file as a ByteArray?
I want to read in large files as byte strings.
Import[..., "Byte"] yields a list of Integers that takes up much more space (16 times more) than the file.
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How can I import Real16 binary data? BinaryReadList doesn't work [closed]
How can I import Real16 binary data? BinaryReadList doesn't work:
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Turn binary number into string of words [closed]
I don't actually have any code for this, as I have no real idea how to do it. I have a large binary number combination that I know turns into some sort of string. How would I go about translating it?
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How to visualize .data files? [closed]
I am working with simulation models trying to carrying out some predictions in ocean waves and this stuff. (MITgcm)
I am able to run the program and generate hundreds of .data and .meta files, but i ...
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How to replace the selected value in matrix with a specific digit?
I want to replace the selected values through "RandomChoice" by 1 and all other values in matrix with 0. I want output in binary form matirx.
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How do I directly read the Nth byte from a binary file?
I have a very large binary file (several hundred GB) which I would like to process using Mathematica. I only need to process a few bytes of this file at a time, and I know in advance which bytes I ...
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Infinite base two number to base ten
Suppose I have a base two number that repeats itself every five places (a number $x$ such that $0\le x<1$. For example:
$$x=0.101011010110101101011010110101101011010110101...$$
What would be a ...
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Binary decision diagrams (BDD) syntax error
I am new here (and to Mathematica) and would like to rebuild a simple binary decision diagram that I found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_decision_diagram
A code has been provided as part ...
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Interpret hexadecimal sequence as a binary matrix that can be used in AdjacencyGraph
I have a database of hex sequences stored as blob.
Each of them is a binary matrix representing the adjacency matrix of a directed graph.
I want to use the ...
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HMAC implementation in pure Mathematica
I am trying to implement the HMAC algorithm in Mathematica. The algorithm is a relatively simple way of signing messages with a key.
Here is some pseudocode from Wikipedia:
My attempt:
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Importing binary structured C++ data file
I am trying to import a binary data file. It seems that BinaryReadList would be appropriate? However the data file is composed of c++ structures like this:
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updating matrix elements based on a condition
I am (still) fairly new to Mathematica and trying to perform some operation on the matrix elements, say for the matrix
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How can I apply a matrix 2*2 to binary digits? [closed]
I want to apply a matrix 2*2 to a binary digits.
For example, D and E are two matrices that they apply to a 1 and 0.
D --> 1 & E --> 0
binary digits: (1011) --> D.E.D.D
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How to do binary calculation？
For example, $a=0.10101$ in binary representation.
Then how to calculate $a^2$ directly in mathematica?
Is there any function turning binary into decimal? I only found its inverse...
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BinaryWrite negative numbers [closed]
testList = {1, 2, 3, 4};
file = "test1";
BinaryWrite[file, testList];
BinaryReadList[file]
Close[file];
Gives
{1, 2, 3, 4}
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Faster binary Hamming weight for big integers?
While working on an answer to Count the sequences in an array I found that DigitCount was the bottleneck in my code when used as ...
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Recurrence relation for multivariate polynomials
I am trying to define a function which recursively computes a polynomial associated to every binary string:
ComputePoly[s_]:=(** Recurse on the string s**)
For ...
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Troubleshooting Program Meant to Swap Elements
I wrote a program that is supposed to take a list (of arbitrary length) of pairs of the digits of binary numbers (e.g. ...
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Binary file gymnastics
I have an unformatted binary file generated by fortran 77 and i want to import it in Mathematica. The file is formed by 5 data arrays with double precission float numbers. The problem is that seems ...
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How to force the writing of buffers onto disk?
Usually, buffering is good; except when you critically need to write data to disk. Is there a way to force the writing of buffers onto disk? (I'm using a binary file)
I believe a ...
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Generating b/w bitmaps from a binary sequence
I would like to make a bitmap that visually represents a binary sequence, something like this:
Where for example the 1's become a black pixel and the 0's a white one. I have never done something ...
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Built in function to convert list of numbers into list of binary numbers [closed]
Does Mathematica have a build in way to convert a list of numbers into a list of binary numbers? If not how can this be accomplished?
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All binary sequences with length n
I don't know if there is a built-in function for this, but I'm thinking about something like this
Outer[List, Table[{0,1},{n}] ]
But ...
