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Anonymoususer852: Describe what is magic in programming/computing terms. Add references.

2025-08-15T12:56:14Z

Describe what is magic in programming/computing terms. Add references.

Jsummers: Category:File Format Identification

2021-06-10T13:32:54Z

Category:File Format Identification

Dan Tobias at 03:23, 2 August 2020

2020-08-02T03:23:38Z

Dan Tobias at 03:22, 2 August 2020

2020-08-02T03:22:27Z

Arlo James Barnes: stub

2020-08-02T01:51:27Z

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I'm sure there are all sorts of almanacs with custom notation that talk about magic, but this page exists to talk about (and link to/from elsewhere on the wiki where needed) the convention of using the first few bytes of a file to notate/detect the reported format, "as is by magic" (actually by table lookups).

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-I'm sure there are all sorts of almanacs with custom notation that [https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Magic talk about magic], but this page exists to talk about (and link to/from elsewhere on the wiki where needed) the convention of using the first few bytes of a file to notate/detect the reported format, "as is by magic" (actually by table lookups).
+I'm sure there are all sorts of almanacs with custom notation that [https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Magic talk about magic], but this page exists to talk about (and link to/from elsewhere on the wiki where needed) the convention of (typically) using the first few bytes of a file to notate/detect the reported format, "as is by magic" (actually by table lookups).
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	I'm sure there are all sorts of almanacs with custom notation that [https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Magic talk about magic], but this page exists to talk about (and link to/from elsewhere on the wiki where needed) the convention of using the first few bytes of a file to notate/detect the reported format, "as is by magic" (actually by table lookups).		I'm sure there are all sorts of almanacs with custom notation that [https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Magic talk about magic], but this page exists to talk about (and link to/from elsewhere on the wiki where needed) the convention of using the first few bytes of a file to notate/detect the reported format, "as is by magic" (actually by table lookups).
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	I'm sure there are all sorts of almanacs with custom notation that [https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Magic talk about magic], but this page exists to talk about (and link to/from elsewhere on the wiki where needed) the convention of using the first few bytes of a file to notate/detect the reported format, "as is by magic" (actually by table lookups).		I'm sure there are all sorts of almanacs with custom notation that [https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Magic talk about magic], but this page exists to talk about (and link to/from elsewhere on the wiki where needed) the convention of using the first few bytes of a file to notate/detect the reported format, "as is by magic" (actually by table lookups).

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−	I'm sure there are all sorts of almanacs with custom notation that talk about magic, but this page exists to talk about (and link to/from elsewhere on the wiki where needed) the convention of using the first few bytes of a file to notate/detect the reported format, "as is by magic" (actually by table lookups).	+	I'm sure there are all sorts of almanacs with custom notation that [https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Magic talk about magic], but this page exists to talk about (and link to/from elsewhere on the wiki where needed) the convention of using the first few bytes of a file to notate/detect the reported format, "as is by magic" (actually by table lookups).