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About Big Endian and Little Endian

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Big Endian and Little Endian are two major endianness of computer memory. The Big Endian system stores the most significant byte of a word at the smallest memory address and the least significant byte at the largest. In contrast, the Little Endian system, stores the least-significant byte at the smallest address.

Published Oct 23, 2010

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