Elements of File Formats

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* [[Ones' complement]]
 
* [[Ones' complement]]
 
* [[Two's complement]]
 
* [[Two's complement]]
* [[Variable-length base-128]]
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* [[Variable-length quantity]]
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See also [[:Category:Integer data types]].
  
 
== Floating point numbers ==
 
== Floating point numbers ==
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* [[Bfloat16]] (BF16) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format]
 
* [[DEC64]]
 
* [[DEC64]]
 
* [[IEEE floating point]]
 
* [[IEEE floating point]]
 
* [[Posit]]
 
* [[Posit]]
 
* [[Unum]]
 
* [[Unum]]
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See also [[:Category:Floating point data types]].
  
 
== Time formats ==
 
== Time formats ==
(see also [[Date and time formats]])
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Refer to [[Date and time formats]].
* [[MS-DOS date/time]]
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* [[Unix time]] (timestamp number)
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== Identifiers ==
 
== Identifiers ==
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* [[CLSID]]
 
* [[Domain name]]
 
* [[Domain name]]
 
** [[Top-level domain]]
 
** [[Top-level domain]]
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* [[IETF language tag]]
 
* [[IETF language tag]]
 
* [[ISO 3166-1 country code]]
 
* [[ISO 3166-1 country code]]
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* [[Macintosh type/creator code]]
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* [[Magic]]
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* [[RISC OS filetype]]
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* [[ULID]]
 
* [[UUID]]
 
* [[UUID]]
 
* [[Windows Language Code Identifier]]
 
* [[Windows Language Code Identifier]]

Revision as of 03:24, 2 August 2020

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This section is for

  • Common formats that make up only a small part of a file
  • Ancillary knowledge that may be needed to help decode file formats

Contents

Integers

See also Category:Integer data types.

Floating point numbers

See also Category:Floating point data types.

Time formats

Refer to Date and time formats.

Identifiers

Other

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