[unwind]

Gah, that was almost unreadable due to the many typos and inconsistencies. First:

For example, the number 10 is encoded as 0x10.

As an example, that is fantastically opaque. It tells me nothing sensible at all, there could just be a magic look-up table that you're assumed to know, for all I know. I can't draw any conclusions that lead me to believe that CBOR is "simple" from that example.

Then, it contradicts the above in the table, where it claims:

    10    0x0a

It also shows bit numbers numbered from 1 to 8, left to right, which is very different from how bits are typically numbered (from 0 to 7, right to left) and thus makes me even more confused.