Magic
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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).