Magic number (programming)

Magic number - sequence of bytes used to identify or indicate the format of a file. Article "Magic number (programming)" in English Wikipedia has 50 points for quality (as of November 1, 2023). The article contains 51 references and 13 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In October 2023 the article "Magic number (programming)" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Magic number (programming)", its content was written by 370 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 696 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 173 times in English Wikipedia and cited 817 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1986 in April 2004
• Global: #7301 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #36187 in October 2014
• Global: #53387 in October 2014

There are 17 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from November 1, 2023 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

下表顯示了最高品質的文章的語言版本。

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Magic number (programming)		50.046
2	Catalan (ca) Número màgic (informàtica)		30.9287
3	French (fr) Nombre magique (programmation)		23.2495
4	Hungarian (hu) Varázsszámok (antiminta)		17.9461
5	Finnish (fi) Maaginen numero		15.5762
6	Korean (ko) 매직 넘버 (프로그래밍)		13.26
7	Ukrainian (uk) Магічне число (програмування)		9.9164
8	German (de) Magische Zahl (Informatik)		8.6719
9	Russian (ru) Магическое число (программирование)		8.6139
10	Hebrew (he) מספר קסם (תכנות)		6.8675

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Magic number (programming)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Magic number (programming)		3 491 682
2	German (de) Magische Zahl (Informatik)		433 237
3	Japanese (ja) マジックナンバー (プログラム)		409 406
4	Russian (ru) Магическое число (программирование)		314 702
5	Spanish (es) Número mágico (informática)		175 111
6	French (fr) Nombre magique (programmation)		109 931
7	Italian (it) Magic number		63 484
8	Chinese (zh) 魔術數字 (程式設計)		42 876
9	Portuguese (pt) Número mágico (programação de sistemas)		38 913
10	Hebrew (he) מספר קסם (תכנות)		16 052

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Magic number (programming)" in October 2023

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Magic number (programming)		22 434
2	Russian (ru) Магическое число (программирование)		1 743
3	Japanese (ja) マジックナンバー (プログラム)		1 500
4	German (de) Magische Zahl (Informatik)		1 293
5	French (fr) Nombre magique (programmation)		620
6	Chinese (zh) 魔術數字 (程式設計)		580
7	Spanish (es) Número mágico (informática)		565
8	Italian (it) Magic number		301
9	Portuguese (pt) Número mágico (programação de sistemas)		187
10	Korean (ko) 매직 넘버 (프로그래밍)		154

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Magic number (programming)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Magic number (programming)		370
2	German (de) Magische Zahl (Informatik)		88
3	Italian (it) Magic number		41
4	French (fr) Nombre magique (programmation)		39
5	Russian (ru) Магическое число (программирование)		39
6	Spanish (es) Número mágico (informática)		25
7	Japanese (ja) マジックナンバー (プログラム)		23
8	Chinese (zh) 魔術數字 (程式設計)		19
9	Hebrew (he) מספר קסם (תכנות)		13
10	Portuguese (pt) Número mágico (programação de sistemas)		12

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Magic number (programming)" with the highest AI in October 2023

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Magic number (programming)		3
2	Russian (ru) Магическое число (программирование)		3
3	Catalan (ca) Número màgic (informàtica)		0
4	German (de) Magische Zahl (Informatik)		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Magia nombro		0
6	Spanish (es) Número mágico (informática)		0
7	Persian (fa) اعداد جادویی (برنامه‌نویسی)		0
8	Finnish (fi) Maaginen numero		0
9	French (fr) Nombre magique (programmation)		0
10	Hebrew (he) מספר קסם (תכנות)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Magic number (programming)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Magic number (programming)		173
2	German (de) Magische Zahl (Informatik)		112
3	French (fr) Nombre magique (programmation)		110
4	Spanish (es) Número mágico (informática)		97
5	Russian (ru) Магическое число (программирование)		72
6	Chinese (zh) 魔術數字 (程式設計)		48
7	Japanese (ja) マジックナンバー (プログラム)		42
8	Italian (it) Magic number		40
9	Persian (fa) اعداد جادویی (برنامه‌نویسی)		27
10	Korean (ko) 매직 넘버 (프로그래밍)		26

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Número màgic (informàtica)
de	German Magische Zahl (Informatik)
en	English Magic number (programming)
eo	Esperanto Magia nombro
es	Spanish Número mágico (informática)
fa	Persian اعداد جادویی (برنامه‌نویسی)
fi	Finnish Maaginen numero
fr	French Nombre magique (programmation)
he	Hebrew מספר קסם (תכנות)
hu	Hungarian Varázsszámok (antiminta)
it	Italian Magic number
ja	Japanese マジックナンバー (プログラム)
ko	Korean 매직 넘버 (프로그래밍)
pt	Portuguese Número mágico (programação de sistemas)
ru	Russian Магическое число (программирование)
uk	Ukrainian Магічне число (програмування)
zh	Chinese 魔術數字 (程式設計)

Best Rank

English: #36187 10.2014

Global: #53387 10.2014

Best Rank

English: #1986 04.2004

Global: #7301 04.2004

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