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Bookmark or Share- structure - What does a zlib header look like? - Stack OverflowAlright, so a lower bit number here refers a less significant bit, not MSB. I was pretty confused when you said “bit #0.” I was pretty confused when you said “bit #0.” – Константин Ван
- Best practice for global constants involving magic numbers1. The question was about magic numbers. Enumerations aren't good for numbers comparing to standard constants - see @nanda 's answer above. 2. Furthermore, enumerations are ugly decision when you have to store a set of different-type constants. 3. Enums were initially introduced as a container for series of elements. Which means enumeration ...
- What are magic numbers and why do some consider them bad?A magic number can also be a number with special, hardcoded semantics. For example, I once saw a system where record IDs > 0 were treated normally, 0 itself was "new record", -1 was "this is the root" and -99 was "this was created in the root". 0 and -99 would cause the WebService to supply a new ID.
- Find Magic Numbers C++ - Stack OverflowThe magic numbers hypothesis states that all positive integers are magic, or, formally: ∀x ∈ Z, MAGIC(x) where MAGIC(x) is the predicate “x is magic”. We are supposed to develop a C++ program to find "Magic Numbers" from 1 to 5 Billion. It is supposed to take 80 seconds or less if being done correctly.
- How to check if a file is gzip compressed? - Stack OverflowAnyway, in order to detect if a file is gzipped, you can read the magic number at the beginning of the file, which is 1f 8b according to the link. Share Improve this answer
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