Little-endian

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a higher address than the least significant byte; that is, "little end" first. not-comparable

    "Most big Unix machines are big-endian, but Intel x86 machines and older Digital machines are little-endian."

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"Most big Unix machines are big-endian, but Intel x86 machines and older Digital machines are little-endian."

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See the etymology for endian.

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