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1234<script type='text/javascript'> 1235 var c = document.body.className; 1236 c = c.replace(/tie-no-js/, 'tie-js'); 1237 document.body.className = c; 1238 </script>
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Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.