Questions tagged [binary]
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Mathematica LinearSolve with additional constraints
I want to solve a linear Matrix equation over GF(2). I am currently using Mathematica's LinearSolve[A,B, Modulus->2] function to solve for X in the equation AX = ...
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how to convert a decimal fractional number to binary with given number of digits after the binary point?
Given 0.4, the binary form is 0.0110011001(with 10 digits after ".") and 0.011001100110011001100110(with 24 digits after ".") without rounding.
Is there any function that can do ...
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How to Parse Binary .STL File Created on Ancient 32-bit Architecture
Import[fileName,"STL"] returns $Failed
The file format is so simple that one can calculate the number of triangles in the file
by counting the number of BinaryReads to reach EndOfFile.
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Binary algorithm for finding the range of elements
Consider a sorted list of real numbers listz and some boolean condition condition that involves these numbers:
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Colorized hexdump
I have this hexdump command that I am writing to display a nicely printed hexdump into a mathematic grid. I want to be able to specify regions that I can highlight, however I am stuck being only able ...
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How can I Xor two decimal numbers?
I want to take two numbers, say 200 and 101, and transform them into their binary form. Then XOR them together and transform the result back into the decimal form. The result in this case should be ...
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Converting two 8-bit integers into a single 16-bit integer
I have a situation where I have a pair of integers {a, b} where a and b are in bytes from a ...
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How to calculate the rightmost 1 and the leftmost 1 in the binary representation of a large number x?
So I have an integer $x$ between $1$ and $2^{64}$ and I am looking for the fastest way to get the rightmost 1 (the least significant bit or LSB) and the leftmost 1 (the most significant bit, MSB). How ...
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Parsing HTTP POST request or how to find a string in a byte array
I am a developer of a Mathematica web-server (see TinyWEB). I managed to parse a multipart POST request containing text files, however, it is hard to expand it to any types of binary data like JPEG, ...
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DigitCount[], but in negative bases
The DigitCount[n,b] function "counts the gives a list of the numbers of $1, 2, \ldots, b-1, 0$ digits in the base-$b$ representation of $n$".
I want to ...
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Convert four bytes to IEEE 754 float
I have some bytes, say bytes=ByteArray@{189,178,61,188}, read from a file with Import[...,"Byte"]. The big endian ...
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Convert List of integers to Hex
I'm doing some OpenCL computing with Mathematica, I have an SHA256 implementation running on my GPU. It returns a list of uints (64bit, Mathematica mistakenly treats these as signed 64bit ints), how ...
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Importing IDL sav file into Mathematica
I have a rather big (around 400 MB) file written by the IDL (Interactive Data Language) software into its binary format ".SAV" which is a proprietary format, not the spss format expected by ...
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Row function to join together binary number elements
I am trying to join entries of binary numbers at the lowest level of a nested list, e.g.
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Real to IEEE 754 not working for values -1<x<1
I have written a Module that takes a real number and returns the IEEE 754 floating point binary equivalent. It works fine for values above |1|, but I cannot get it to work for inputs less than |1|.
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Changing values in a list
I am currently working the genetic algorithm, specifically in the mutations part, that takes binary numbers and want to convert some of the values in a string into another value.
For example,
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Need help converting decimals to Binary
I am struggling figuring out how to turn decimals between {0,1} to binary. I am currently trying to use RealDigits[] and FromDigits[] For example using:
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Numbers to binary and back
I am struggling on how to create a function that converts a number into binary and then back. I know there is a built-in function about this BaseForm[] but I am ...
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Algorithm to convert real numbers decimal to binary
Currently trying to write code that converts decimal floats to binary base form (I know BaseForm exists).
Currently I'm working with an example that takes 3.3 and converts it:
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Converting Binary Values to Points [closed]
I searched a lot for this question but couldn't find a similar question.
How can I convert my binary values to points. The output of the code I wrote is below, I wrote my expectation also below.
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How do I get 3 digits binary after calling BaseForm or IntegerDigits [duplicate]
Let's say I have a list called 'solution', I'm converting these numbers into binary form
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How to read doubles from specific location of a large file
I have a 1GB file in a proprietary format that is a mix of ASCII characters and doubles (floating point numbers). I need to read in a sequence of twelve doubles. They are in consecutive bytes of the ...
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Generating a matrix with specific number of 1's in every row and column
I would like to have a function f(n,k) that generates a random nxn matrix with k elements equal to 1 in each row and column and has an all-zero diagonal, with all other elements equal to 0. In other ...
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Extracting data from binary file without reading the whole file - is this possible? [duplicate]
Suppose I have a binary data file that holds 1 million lists each composed of five integers. i.e. $\{ x1,x2,x3,x4,x5 \}$
Perhaps I am missing something obvious (quite likely) - but if I know I want to ...
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Implementing the Binary GCD algorithm in Mathematica
Well, I have $n\in\mathbb{N}$ and I want to transform $n$ to a binary number which can be done using FromDigits[IntegerDigits[n, 2]]. I want to compute the ...
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Using Mathematica to derive analytic form of single variable function
I am interested in finding an analytical form of the following function $f(n)$ defined as:
$$f(n):=\sum_{\{\bar{K}\}}\prod_{l<j}^{n}e^{ik_lk_j},$$ where $\{\bar{K}\}$ is the full set of binary ...
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How to separate these circle based on their pixels mean intensity?
I have this image I want to separate green circles from yellow circle in two different images whiteout changing the pixel intensity information. I used the mean intensity
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Binary permutation list code in Mathematica
Given some natural number $N$, I am interested in the set of all binary permutations of length $N$ (with the intention of storing in lists depending on how many $1$'s appear in each permutation). My ...
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Minimizing a function over a bounded domain with binary variables
I want to minimize the following function:
$$
f(m,n)= \sum_{i=1}^N\Big\{ \alpha_i(x_i-m)^T(x_i-m) \Big\} + \sum_{i=1}^N\Big\{\beta_i (x_i-n)^T(x_i-n) \Big\}
$$
where $m,n$ are all 2-d vectors:
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What is the relationship between the Wolfram executables? Where is this documented?
The relatively new wolframscript now accompanies the traditional math and wolfram binaries. ...
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Read binary files and separate the 64-bit unsigned integers into certain forms？
I have a binary file where each data is a 64-bit unsigned integer (little endian). For simplicity, let's say the data in testdata.bin file opened in HxD is:
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How do I get the data from this binary file? [duplicate]
I have a file which contains the following binary data:
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Convert ByteArray to integer and real values
during the import of a complex file format I handle ByteArray or lists of byte values. While I can easy transform them from one type to each other:
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How to generate the 8^th order symmetric binary matrices whose sum of absolute eigenvalues is 8?
It is needed to generate all 8th order(8 by 8) symmetric binary matrices(of 0's and 1's) such that the sum of the absolute eigenvalues is 8. Listing all the 8th order symmetric binary matrices and ...
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FindClusters Hamming Distance giving error
I am trying to run FindClusters[hex, DistanceFunction -> HammingDistance[IntegerDigits[#, 2, 8], IntegerDigits[0, 2, 8]] &] over a list of data but I keep ...
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Import and create a hexdump view of file
How would I go about creating a hexdump type of view of an imported binary file?
for example, (format is
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Reading product of same ByteArrays
I am handling a huge set of data and I am trying to optimize my code. I have very large expressions to expand and simplify and I've seen that converting the expressions to ByteArrays improves a lot ...
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Generating all symmetric binary matrices of order up to 7?
I want to create all symmetric binary matrix with order up to 7. Can anybody help in creating this?
I want to obtain the subset of all symmetric matrices, with all diagonal entries being zero.
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Simplifying expressions containing binary variables
Consider an expression with two binary variables, $a,b\in\left\{ 0,1\right\} $, given by $F=(1-a-b)^{3}(1-b)$, with truth table:
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FindMaximum under binary constrains
I'm trying to find a maximum for a function whose variables have binary values (either -1 or 1). The clumsy code for that constraint I use is shown below. There must be a more compact code, and I ...
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Table Glitch / Error with binary data
I have a large group of binary files that I am loading with
binaryList = Table[ BinaryReadList[ paths[[i]], "Byte"], {i, Length@paths}];
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Import OVF 2.0 Vector field files
I'm using a simulation software (mumax3) which outputs OVF_2.0 files. It can either export binary or text files. The binary files are usually much smaller than the text files. I would like to use the ...
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Find if there are consecutive 1s in a binary representation of a number
Given a list of numbers in decimal form, what is the most efficient way to determine if there are any consecutive 1s in the binary forms of those numbers? My solution so far:
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Construct a binary tree where nodes are labeled according to given rule
I want to plot a binary tree in Mathematica where the nodes are labeled according to a given rule. In fact, whether a node has a left child or a right child or both, will be determined by a rule. And ...
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How to understand and use bit operation for programming
I got the following code using bit operation from here:
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Importing a 12 bit array
I have a binary file of 12 bits integers obtained from a camera software. It can produce FITS files from these but the processing time on the large data set I have is excessive. What I have is the ...
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How to recover plaintext from .MX files?
I need a function to deserialize the contents of an MX source file for reading. We can’t simply use Get because I don’t want to load or run the code, but rather to ...
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Why does Mathematica consume so much memory when reading binary data?
There are somewhat similar questions on here, but I didn't find a satisfying answer for this case: I import a 1.7 GB binary data file using the following command:
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How to get the bit size (bit length) of an integer? [closed]
Suppose I have the integer 255, so 11111111 is its base 2 (bit) representation and the bit size of 255 is 8.
How can I calculate the bit size of a (big) integer in Mathematica?
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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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