little-endian

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See the etymology for endian.

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little-endian (not comparable)

  1. (computing) Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a higher address than the least significant byte; that is, "little end" first.
    • 1999, W. Curtis Preston, Unix Backup and Recovery, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 132:
      Most big Unix machines are big-endian, but Intel x86 machines and older Digital machines are little-endian.

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