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How are Tezos operations encoded?
The structure of an encoded operation group is the following:
<branch : 32 bytes>
<tag#0 : nat> | <content#0>
...
<tag#n : nat> | <content#n>
<signature (optional) : ...
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How are sets serialized in Tezos?
Sets are serialized by first ordering the elements, and then packing them as a sequence which is also how lists are represented when PACK is called. This means that these two expressions evaluate to ...
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How to call PACK in JavaScript
Taquito has this functionality: the packData method in the RPC client package.
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How are pairs serialized in Tezos?
Here is a break down:
05: all michelson values are tagged with the prefix 0x05 (ref).
07: the first tag denotes the micheline constructor. Pair 1 2 is a primitive application with 2 arguments and no ...
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How are strings serialized in Tezos?
Strings are serialized as follows:
01 to indicate type string
Four bytes (eight hex chars) to indicate length of string: 0000000c=0x0c=12 in your case
The string represented by its ASCII values: ...
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How are integers serialized in Tezos?
The 05 prefix indicates that this serialization comes from the PACK assembly instruction, and the next byte 00 in case of integers (nat, int, and tez) indicates that the type is integer. So the ...
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