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Big [Endian] is where you send/store the number 0x01020304 as "01 02 03 04". This was traditionally used for larger machines, and since larger machines had network connectivity, NetworkByteOrder has been traditionally BigEndian. [1] English and most European languages are traditionally BigEndian: we write numbers "1234" when we mean "one thousand, two hundred and thirty four". By contrast, Semitic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew are LittleEndian -- despite the fact that the digits are written in the same order -- because those languages are read right-to-left. So "1234" in Arabic is STILL "one thousand, two hundred and thirty four", it's just read out in reverse order. Funny phenomena in different everyday's languages: * "twenty-one" in English is BigEndian. * "einundzwanzig" in German means "one-and-twenty" and is LittleEndian. * However, this German phenomenon holds only for tens and ones, not for hundreds: "dreihunderteinundzwanzig" means "three-hundred-and-one-and-twenty" and mixes both Endians!! Most [SiliconGraphicsIndy]'s are BigEndian. What is "little endian" and "big endian" in computer CPUs? See [Endian]. Compare LittleEndian. ----- [1] Big and Little Endian are a reference to the book "Gullivers Travels", where a tribe of tiny people divide themselves into two factions over which end they should cut their eggs open at - the big end, or the little end.
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