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How to track external media (binaries) that multiple engineers will update?
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this--if not, please point me in the right direction. This will be a little long-winded due to the specific nature of my question, so I apologize in advance....
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How do you represent a negative floating point in two's complement?
I was looking into a datasheet of a Real Time Clock (RTC) with a temperature sensor MAX31328. (You can find the datasheet easily). I'd like to convert the raw binary value into decimal format. I have ...
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What is this numeral system notation?
I used Google search to convert numbers from one numeral system to another. 10 to binary is 0b1010; 10 to hexadecimal is 0xA. What's the meaning of 'b' and 'x', accordingly? I think these are ...
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How do binary numbers interact with the CPU and cause some action to take place? [duplicate]
EDIT: Perhaps what I am misunderstanding is that when it is said that the code we type gets turned into machine code of 0s and 1s. If these 0s and 1s are the abstracted representation of their ...
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(Algorithm) Maximum Binary String After Making Changes
I am given a binary string binary consisting of only 0's or 1's. There are two allowed operations (can be re-used any number of times): Operation 1: If the number contains the substring "00",...
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How compiled code works?
I'm just curious, I'd like to understand how compiled code works from the moment I run an executable file. Some time ago I had found a very well written article which helped, using a hex editor, to ...
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Do decimal equivalents to binary number values hold significance in software programming?
It seems as though in software engineering, we care more about these "on and off switch" usages of binary numbers more than the actual values of them numbers... For example, say I have the number: ...
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How do you debug a binary format?
I would like to be able to debug building a binary builder. Right now I am basically printing out the input data to the binary parser, and then going deep into the code and printing out the mapping of ...
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