/sci/ - Science & Math

So I've been learning neural networks on my own but all the problems I've seen so far deal with an output layer of one or multiple binary neurons so that the output is either 0 or 1 or 00000000 or 11111111 etc and anything inbetween. But what if I would want an output that is an arbitrary long integer like 666 or 1488? Should I have an output layer with number of neurons I expect my number to be and then convert that binary number to decimal? E.g. I know the number can't be larger than 2000 (11111010000) so my output layer would have 11 binary neurons.