Questions tagged [binary]
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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}];
specifically ...
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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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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 ...
