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Data Representation and Numerics

Bits have no meaning until a representation, range, byte order, and encoding give them one.

flowchart LR Bits --> Integers --> Decimal[fixed / decimal] Bits --> Float[IEEE 754] Bits --> Text[Unicode encoding] Bits --> Objects[layout and tagging]

Study junior, middle, senior, then professional. Practice by encoding one value and inspecting its bytes.