For example, in a binary file, the number 250 could be encoded in bits as the sequence 11111010. It could also be encoded in a text file (for example, a programming language source file) as the digits 2, 5, 0; which would in turn be encoded by the bits in the text file as (for example, using UTF-8) 00110010, 00110101, 00110000.

Structure

Binary files are usually thought of as being a sequence of bytes, which means the binary digits (bits)

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