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How many “encodings” are there?

This is a pretty basic question but I am considering how binary is the actual representation form of all data in a modern digital computer.

There are different character encodings which may represent a character such as a letter with a seven bit, eight bit or large binary sequence.

Similarly, colors can be encoded with the RGB encoding, which is 8 bits, which means there are 256 possible colors.

I am just curious roughly how many encodings exist in an average modern computer?

Is it a pointless question like there are as many possible encodings as there are data formats and programming languages?

In other words, if you read in the entire memory of a computer, what can you imagine would be the correct decoding of all sections of binary there?

Some might be encrypted data using a number of types of encryption.

Much would be data in a variety of encodings - video, audio, photos, etc.

Much would be text files and programs, in various character encodings.

There would be machine executable compiled binary of programs.

Is it possible to estimate all in all how many different binary “formats” you would find present on an average modern computer?
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It isn't possible to answer this question.  There are an unlimited number of "encoding" because anyone can create their own encoding for just about anything. 

Even something as simple as "text" has numerous encodings:  ANSI, ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16, EPCDIC.  

Hell, even binary (which is strictly ones and zeros) has big endian and little endian.  Then you have the encoding for data types (integers, floating point numbers, fixed point numbers, binary coded decimals).