Brian Cryer's Glossary of IT Terms with Links
Endian
- Endian
- The order in which bytes are stored in multi-byte data types, either
big-endian (high order byte first) or
little-endian (low order byte first).
Little-endian/big-endian is normally only an issue when data is exchanged between dissimilar systems for which there is a clear need to agree on byte order.
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