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Somebunny hid some eggs in my yard! Can you help me find them?

I woke up this morning and my yard was a mess. Last night I saw lots of bunnies out there, doing what bunnies do, and all of the bunnies were black or white. Now my yard looks like this:

365.1435
1.523007
237.2203
107.4861
0565.899
131.3877
057.8623
1.458747

How many eggs are hidden in my yard?
This puzzle was brought to you by the letter ____

Hint:

All of the numbers in my yard are integers.

Hint 2:

A child could solve this puzzle with a calculator, if you showed her what operations to perform on the yard.

Since apparently this was harder than I thought, Really Big Hint 3:

I already told you what two operations to perform on the yard, and in what order.

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  • $\begingroup$ math not geography? $\endgroup$
    – Raystafarian
    Mar 28, 2016 at 15:26
  • $\begingroup$ @Raystafarian - correct. $\endgroup$
    – TTT
    Mar 28, 2016 at 15:30

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You have

22 eggs.

Reasoning:

doing what bunnies do would be another way of saying multiplying.
All of the bunnies are black or white, so we should probably interpret the results as binary.
Multiplying both of the integers in each line, then printing the result in binary form gives: 

1111111110111111111
1111111101011111111
1111111011101111111
1111110111110111111
1111100000000011111
1111011111111101111
1110111111111110111
1101111111111111011
Which, interpreting a 0 to look like an egg, gives 22 eggs in total. This puzzle was brought to you by the letter A, and the numbers 1 and 0.

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  • $\begingroup$ Somebunny finally figured it out. $\endgroup$
    – TTT
    Mar 28, 2016 at 23:29

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