Study the provided sample data files. The input files are binary files in a new file format, while the

output files are in your known file format $($and$,$ for stage $5,$ the output files are sorted$).$ Your first

task is to identify the input file format by comparing the information contained in it with the

information contained in the sample files. Fortunately, there are some small files provided which

will make it a lot easier to work out what information in the input file corresponds with what

information in the output file.

You will need to spend some time examining hex dumps $($and possibly other dump formats$)$ of the

sample input files and comparing the information in the bytes with what you might expect to find.

Feel free to use whatever tools you can find to examine the bytes in your files. The input files and

output files contain the same data values, but the binary formats of individual fields are different, so

you are looking for the correspondences between the data values in two files. For example, a $16-$bit

signed integer in your original file format might be represented as $32-$bit unsigned or as a floatingpoint in the new file format.