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[George_]

Hitchhikers guide? remember the number 42?

I was reading trough the TIFF6 specifications because of a stupid compression algorithm that didnt work..

I went here:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFF6.pdf

go to page 13...

Bytes 2-3
An arbitrary but carefully chosen number (42) that further identifies the file as a
TIFF file.

just wanted to share that little stupid thing;)

cheers George

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myNameIsGeorge wrote on Sat, 13 May 2006 14:40

Hitchhikers guide? remember the number 42? I was reading trough the TIFF6 specifications because of a stupid compression algorithm that didnt work.. I went here:  http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFF6.pdf go to page 13... Bytes 2-3 An arbitrary but carefully chosen number (42) that further identifies the file as a TIFF file. just wanted to share that little stupid thing;) cheers George

wow. that friggin number.

http://www.digitalthoughtsw.com/DTS/42/