Bits Need a Declared Type
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A series of bits has no meaning by itself — reading it requires knowing the declared type, because the same string decodes differently as an unsigned or a signed integer.
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One four-bit string answers to several different numbers depending on the reading rules attached.
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The type travels with the data or the data is noise.