Magic is well, magic is ambiguous. Magic is something we donât know! Magic is science, but science is spirituality, but spirituality is magic, and the whole thing gets flipped on its head.
Magic numbers: numbers that we donât know what the point of it is
An example can be found in the Portable Executable DOS header, which has 2 ascii bytes âMZâ. these numbers are signifiers that this is a executable file. MZ refers to the programmerâs name Mark Zbikowski