Most of the processor architectures which we come into contact with today are little-endian systems, meaning that they store and address bytes in a least-significant byte (LSB) order. Unlike in ...

The order of digits in a computer that is the opposite of how humans view numbers. The digits on the left are less in value than the digits on the right. See byte order. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...

The ordering of bytes differs between the "big endian" and the "little endian" platforms. These colloquial terms are used to describe byte ordering for IBM mainframes (big endian) and for Intel-based ...

The ordering of bytes differs between the "big endian" and "little endian" platforms. These colloquial terms are used to describe byte ordering for IBM mainframes (big endian) and for Intel-based ...