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''“There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who know binary and those who don't.” – Seen on the net.''
<br> ''“There are 01 kinds of people who know binary; little-endians and everyone else.” – zcat(1)''
-The order of bytes in a word. The names “Big
-endian” and “little-endian” originate from the book “Gulliver’s Travels”, where a tribe of tiny people divide themselves into two factions in a ReligiousWar over which end they should cut their eggs open at – the big end, or the little end. In computer terms, big-endian [CPU]s store the most significant byte at the lowest byte address of a word and progress to less significant bytes at higher addresses, while little-endian machines start with the least significant byte and store progressively more significant ones. A [C] program demonstrates this:
+The order of bytes in a word. The names “big
-endian” and “little-endian” originate from the book “Gulliver’s Travels”, where a tribe of tiny people divide themselves into two factions in a ReligiousWar over which end they should cut their eggs open at – the big end, or the little end. In computer terms, big-endian [CPU]s store the most significant byte at the lowest byte address of a word and progress to less significant bytes at higher addresses, while little-endian machines start with the least significant byte and store progressively more significant ones. A [C] program demonstrates this:
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#include <stdio.h>
int main( void ) {
