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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks for teaching me something, but the obscurity of your answer just illustrates how rare that requirement is in human readable formats, and mostly limited to data formats designed for numeric precision, like HDF5, FITS or protobuf.