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  2. Orders of magnitude (data) - Wikipedia

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    – the "word size" for 16-bit console systems including: Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Mattel Intellivision. 2 5: 32 bits (4 bytes) – size of an integer capable of holding 4,294,967,296 different values – size of an IEEE 754 single-precision floating point numbersize of addresses in IPv4, the current Internet Protocol

  3. List of file signatures - Wikipedia

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    A file signature is data used to identify or verify the content of a file. Such signatures are also known as magic numbers or magic bytes.. Many file formats are not intended to be read as text.

  4. File size - Wikipedia

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    File size is a measure of how much data a computer file contains or how much storage space it is allocated. Typically, file size is expressed in units based on byte . A large value is often expressed with a metric prefix (as in megabyte and gigabyte ) or a binary prefix (as in mebibyte and gibibyte ).

  5. List of file formats - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of file formats used by computers, organized by type. Filename extension is usually noted in parentheses if they differ from the file format's name or abbreviation.

  6. Optical storage media writing and reading speed - Wikipedia

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    In the history of optical storage media there have been and there are different optical disc formats with different data writing/reading speeds.. Original CD-ROM drives could read data at about 150 kB/s, 1× constant angular velocity (CAV), [1] the same speed of compact disc players without buffering.

  7. Office Open XML - Wikipedia

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    Office Open XML (also informally known as OOXML) [5] is a zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. Ecma International standardized the initial version as ECMA-376.

  8. File format - Wikipedia

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    wav-file: 2.1 megabytes. ogg-file: 154 kilobytes. A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file.It specifies how bits are used to encode information in a digital storage medium.

  9. Word (computer architecture) - Wikipedia

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    That preferred size becomes the word size of the architecture. Character size was in the past (pre-variable-sized character encoding) one of the influences on unit of address resolution and the choice of word size. Before the mid-1960s, characters were most often stored in six bits; this allowed no more than 64 characters, so the alphabet was ...