question: public static int distanceFinderZValue ( double [ ] vector ) { StringBuilder binaryBuffer = new StringBuilder ( ) ; List < String > binaryReps = new ArrayList < > ( vector . length ) ; for ( double d : vector ) { int j = ( int ) d ; String binary = Integer . toBinaryString ( j ) ; binaryReps . add ( binary ) ; } while ( ! binaryReps . isEmpty ( ) ) { for ( int j = 0 ; j < binaryReps . size ( ) ; j ++ ) { String curr = binaryReps . get ( j ) ; if ( ! curr . isEmpty ( ) ) { char first = curr . charAt ( 0 ) ; binaryBuffer . append ( first ) ; curr = curr . substring ( 1 ) ; binaryReps . set ( j , curr ) ; } else binaryReps . remove ( j ) ; } } return Integer . parseInt ( binaryBuffer . toString ( ) , 2 ) ; }
target:  This will translate a vector in to an equivalent integer