Elements of File Formats

File Format
Name	Elements of File Formats
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Elements of File Formats

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

Elements of binary formats

• Base2
• Bit order
• Endianness (little-endian, big-endian)
• Floating point numbers
  • DEC64
  • IEEE floating point
• GUID
• Integers
  • Binary-coded decimal
  • Ones' complement
  • Two's complement
  • Variable-length base-128
• Unix time (timestamp number)
• UUID

See also

• Character encoding
• Compression
• Data type
• Date and time formats
• Error codes and messages
• Error detection and correction
• Text-based data
• Category:Naming and numbering systems