A little diddy about binary file formats
Understanding the nature of file formats and escape characters has been an itch of mine. I recently found a few useful explanations that inspired me to write my understanding of binary files.
How computers represent data
Everything is bits and bytes, 1’s and 0’s to the computer. Humans understand text, so we have programs that convert a series of 1’s and 0’s …
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Math & Numbers
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