Terminology

The following data types are used in the serialization:

•	Boolean refers to an 8-bit signed character which must be 0 or 1.

•	Character refers to an 8-bit signed character.

•	Integer refers to a 32-bit signed integer.

•	Double refers to a 64-bit double.

Matrices are stored in row-major order. In this documentation brackets are used to indicate a matrix. Hence, integer[3][4] means that 12 integers representing a matrix are store in the file. The first three entries corresponds to the integers in the first row of the matrix, and so on.