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Bitwise operation. In computer programming, a bitwise operation operates on a bit string, a bit array or a binary numeral (considered as a bit string) at the level of its individual bits. It is a fast and simple action, basic to the higher-level arithmetic operations and directly supported by the processor.
Binary-coded decimal(BCD) is a binary encoded representation of integer values that uses a 4-bit nibbleto encode decimal digits. Four binary bits can encode up to 16 distinct values; but, in BCD-encoded numbers, only ten values in each nibble are legal, and encode the decimal digits zero, through nine.
This is a list of some binary codes that are (or have been) used to represent text as a sequence of binary digits "0" and "1". Fixed-width binary codes use a set number of bits to represent each character in the text, while in variable-width binary codes, the number of bits may vary from character to character.
A bit array (also known as bitmask, [ 1] bit map, bit set, bit string, or bit vector) is an array data structure that compactly stores bits. It can be used to implement a simple set data structure. A bit array is effective at exploiting bit-level parallelism in hardware to perform operations quickly. A typical bit array stores kw bits, where w ...
In error-correcting coding, the minimum Hamming weight, commonly referred to as the minimum weightwminof a code is the weight of the lowest-weight non-zero code word. The weight wof a code word is the number of 1s in the word. For example, the word 11001010 has a weight of 4. In a linear block codethe minimum weight is also the minimum Hamming ...
String (computer science) Strings are typically made up of characters, and are often used to store human-readable data, such as words or sentences. In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable. The latter may allow its elements to be mutated and the length ...
A binary-to-text encoding is encoding of data in plain text. More precisely, it is an encoding of binary data in a sequence of printable characters. These encodings are necessary for transmission of data when the communication channel does not allow binary data (such as email or NNTP) or is not 8-bit clean. PGP documentation ( RFC 4880) uses ...
Binary entropy function. Entropy of a Bernoulli trial (in shannons) as a function of binary outcome probability, called the binary entropy function. In information theory, the binary entropy function, denoted or , is defined as the entropy of a Bernoulli process ( i.i.d. binary variable) with probability of one of two values, and is given by ...