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  2. Ion (serialization format) - Wikipedia

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    // comments are allowed in Ion files using the double forward slash {key: "value", // key here is a symbol, it can also be a string as in JSON nums: 1 _000_000, // equivalent to 1000000, use of underscores with numbers is more readable 'A float value': 31415e-4, // key is a value that contains spaces "An int value":. int, annotated: age:: 35, // age here is the annotation to number 35 lists ...

  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. Property list - Wikipedia

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    Property list files use the filename extension.plist, and thus are often referred to as p-list files. Property list files are often used to store a user's settings. They are also used to store information about bundles and applications , a task served by the resource fork in the old Mac OS.

  5. 8.3 filename - Wikipedia

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    A directory table is a special type of file that represents a directory. Each file or directory stored within it is represented by a 32-byte entry in the table. Each entry records the name, extension, attributes ( archive , directory, hidden, read-only, system and volume), the date and time of creation, the address of the first cluster of the ...

  6. dir (command) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, dir (directory) is a command in various computer operating systems used for computer file and directory listing. [1] It is one of the basic commands to help navigate the file system . The command is usually implemented as an internal command in the command-line interpreter ( shell ).

  7. Data set - Wikipedia

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    Various plots of the multivariate data set Iris flower data set introduced by Ronald Fisher (1936). [1]A data set (or dataset) is a collection of data.In the case of tabular data, a data set corresponds to one or more database tables, where every column of a table represents a particular variable, and each row corresponds to a given record of the data set in question.

  8. Magic number (programming) - Wikipedia

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    An example of an uninformatively named constant is int SIXTEEN = 16, while int NUMBER_OF_BITS = 16 is more descriptive. The problems associated with magic 'numbers' described above are not limited to numerical types and the term is also applied to other data types where declaring a named constant would be more flexible and communicative. [1]

  9. Extended file attributes - Wikipedia

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    Unlike forks, which can usually be as large as the maximum file size, extended attributes are usually limited in size to a value significantly smaller than the maximum file size. Typical uses include storing the author of a document, the character encoding of a plain-text document, or a checksum , cryptographic hash or digital certificate , and ...