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gbeckers · May 16, 2022 · a2187bf · a2187bf
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+Format Design
+=============
+
+Binary array data and text metadata in separate files
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+- The numeric array is saved in a flat binary file called 'arrayvalues.bin'.
+- Information on the array's shape, type, memory layout and byte order is
+  stored in a JSON text file called 'arraydescription.json'.
+- Metadata is stored in a JSON text file called 'metadata.json'.
+- Human-readable documentation, with full format descriptions and code
+  snippets to ready the array data in many language are stored in a UTF-8
+  text file called 'README.txt'.
+- These four files are stored in a separate directory, which represents the
+  Darr array.
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 Release notes
 =============
 
-Master
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+Version 0.5.1
+-------------
 - automatically convert numpy datetime64 to str in json metadata
 
 Version 0.5.0