:: You don't need binary ( at least not for that reason )-and binary is far from unambiguous because ordering might matter-or the aliens might use a two-dimensional number representation, wrapping the digits into a spiral or something like that.
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It likely calculated with a Floating point number representation which is a trade-off between range and precision, involving two LSBs ( its " smallest quantised approximations " ) in separately expressing the significand and exponent . talk ) 17 : 02, 10 February 2016 ( UTC)
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This binary number representation is similar to that of Purely Functional Random Access Lists by Okasaki, with the difference that random access lists require all the trees to be " complete " binary trees, whereas Conc-trees are more relaxed, and only require balanced trees.
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In some signed number representations ( but not the two's complement representation used to represent integers in most computers today ) and most floating point number representations, zero has two distinct representations, one grouping it with the positive numbers and one with the negatives; this latter representation is known as negative zero.
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In some signed number representations ( but not the two's complement representation used to represent integers in most computers today ) and most floating point number representations, zero has two distinct representations, one grouping it with the positive numbers and one with the negatives; this latter representation is known as negative zero.
