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Chapter 10: Processes of Perception and Analysis

Section 5: Data Compression


[Number representations in] practical computing

Numbers used for arithmetic in practical computing are usually assumed to have a fixed length of, say, 32 bits, and thus do not need to be self-delimiting. In Mathematica, where integers can be of essentially any size, a representation closer to (b) above is used.



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From Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science [citation]