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1193<script src="//www.acla.com/wp-content/themes/schmidt/js/bootstrap.min.js"></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.