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 # Ethereum Recursive-Length-Prefix (RLP) Encoding, with code in Erlang and TypeScript
 
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 This is a standard for encoding arbitrary(ish)-depth lists of lists of ... of
 lists of bytestrings, as a single bytestring.
 
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